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8th grade · Social Studies · Unit 7 of 10

Westward Expansion

Manifest Destiny, Oregon and Mexico

What your child practices

Manifest Destiny, the Oregon Trail and Oregon Treaty, the Mexican-American War and Gold Rush, Oregon's exclusion laws, and what expansion meant for Native nations, Mexican Americans and Chinese immigrants.

Oregon State Standards learning standard: 8.G.MM.3; 8.G.GR.2; 8.G.HE.7; 8.C.PI.4 · migration and settlement in US expansion, changing maps, effects on Indigenous peoples, and documents that limited rights in Oregon

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

    Texas declared independence from Mexico in…

    • 1865
    • 1776
    • 1836

  2. Question 2

    Many settlers on the Oregon Trail headed for…

    • the High Desert
    • the Willamette Valley
    • Hells Canyon

  3. Question 3

    Push factors that drove people west included…

    • crowded cities, debt and crop failures
    • gold
    • free land in the West

  4. Question 4

    Californios were…

    • Spanish-speaking families of Mexican California
    • Oregon pioneers
    • gold miners from China

  5. Question 5

    As settlers moved west, many Native nations…

    • were not affected
    • lost land and food sources, and many resisted
    • gained land

  6. Question 6

    Maps from 1783 to 1853 show the United States growing from the Atlantic to…

    • the Rocky Mountains only
    • the Mississippi only
    • the Pacific

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