Middle school · American history
This quiz helps revise “Westward expansion: Louisiana Purchase to the Oregon Trail” in American history for middle school. It has 25 questions in five categories: The Louisiana Deal, The Expedition, Land and Rights, The Western Map, On the Oregon Trail. Questions get harder as the points go up, from 100 to 500.
The 100- and 200-point questions are open here. The rest show only their first words, and there are no answers: all of that is in the game itself.
Which country sold its claim to the Louisiana Territory to the United States?
Which U.S. president, pictured here, oversaw the Louisiana Purchase?
In what year was…
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Which two explorers led the U.S. expedition that set out for the West in 1804?
Which woman interpreted for the explorers while traveling with her infant son?
Starting near St. Louis…
In the gameWhat was the expedition's…
In the gameWhich Indigenous people supplied…
In the gameWhich peoples already had homelands across land France claimed to sell to the United States?
What name is given to the Cherokee people's forced journey from their southeastern homelands, pictured here?
Which 1830 federal law…
In the gameMany families removed from…
In the gameWhat two-word term describes…
In the gameWhich ocean did the expedition reach after crossing North America?
Which mountain range, pictured here, did westbound travelers cross before reaching Oregon Country?
What named region of…
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What is this canvas-topped vehicle that carried many migrants' supplies on the Oregon Trail?
In what season did most wagon parties leave Missouri to avoid mountain snow later in the trip?
Which Missouri town was…
In the gameAbout how many miles…
In the gameWhich disease, often spread…
In the gameAll 25 questions and the answers are in the game. Invite your class or friends with a link — guests need no account.