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5th grade · Social Studies · Unit 11 of 11

Moving West

Immigrants, trails and new states

What your child practices

Immigrants from Europe, the Louisiana Purchase and Lewis and Clark, life on the overland trails, Mexican settlement in the Southwest, Texas, the Mexican-American War and how California and other western lands became part of the United States.

California Content Standards learning standard: 5.8.1; 5.8.2; 5.8.3; 5.8.4; 5.8.5; 5.8.6 · immigration, the states and territories of 1850, western exploration, the overland trails, Mexican settlement, and how western lands became part of the US

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    Why did many families move west?

    • to avoid all work
    • to visit Europe
    • for cheap land, gold and a fresh start
    • to find snow

  2. Question 2

    Why did many immigrants come to the US in the 1840s from Ireland?

    • a famine destroyed the potato crop
    • they won a lottery
    • Ireland had too much food
    • to find gold in 1840

  3. Question 3

    The Santa Fe Trail linked Missouri with…

    • Chicago
    • Santa Fe, then part of Mexico
    • Boston
    • Seattle

  4. Question 4

    The Louisiana Purchase was made by President…

    • Andrew Jackson
    • Thomas Jefferson
    • Abraham Lincoln
    • George Washington

  5. Question 5

    Manifest Destiny was the belief that the US should…

    • spread across North America to the Pacific
    • return land to Britain
    • move to Europe
    • stay small

  6. Question 6

    In 1846, Britain and the US agreed to divide the land north of California at…

    • the 49th parallel
    • the Mississippi
    • the equator
    • the Rio Grande

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