Westward Expansion Webquest Bundle

The bundle contains 7 engaging webquests for the Westward Expansion Unit (Indian Removal, Alamo, Oregon and Mormon Trail, Mexican-American War, California Gold Rush, Transcontinental Railroad, and the American West). I have included answer keys. Please message me if you have any questions.

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Webquests included:

Indian Removal Webquest (27 Questions)

Topics:

• Causes of Relocation
• Trail of Tears
• Civilization Campaign
• Assimilation
• Five Civilized Tribes (Choctaw, Chickasaw, Seminole, Creek, and Cherokee)
• Treatment of Natives by settlers
• Worchester v. Georiga
• Indian Removal Act
• Indian Territory
• Andrew Jackson
• Martin Van Buren
• Removal Conditions
• Cherokees Petition Removal
• General Winfield Scott
• Distance of Relocation
• Effects of Relocation

The Alamo Webquest (24 Questions)

Topics:

• Texans
• San Antonio
• General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
• Commanders of the Alamo (James Bowie and William Travis)
• Davy Crockett
• Alamo's Defenders Hold the Fort 13 days
• Early History of the Alamo
• Missionaries and Native Americans
• Texan Volunteers Capture the Fort in 1835
• Sam Houston
• Santa Anna
• Mexican Army
• Battle of San Jacinto
• Texan Independence
• Annexation of Texas

Oregon and Mormon Trail Webquest (30 questions)

Topics:

• The Distance of Each Trail
• Challenges/Hardships
• Marcus and Narcissa Whitman
• Reasons Why People Moved West
• Mountain Men
• Jedidiah Smith
• South Pass
• John Fremont
• Manifest Destiny
• Oxen
• Cooperation and Conflict with Native Americans
• Independence, MO
• Oregon City
• Independence Rock
• Brigham Young
• Mormons
• The Great Salt Lake
• Religious persecution
• Joseph Smith
• Physical Feature the Trails Followed
• Bison
• Rocky Mountains
• Deseret

Mexican-American War Webquest (36 questions)

Topics:

• Causes and Effects of the Mexican-American War
• James K. Polk
• Dates
• Texas Annexation
• Reasons President Polk wanted to Expand the Nation
• Zachary Taylor
• Polk's Response after Violence at the Rio Grande River
• Opposition to the War (Abraham Lincoln)
• Manifest Destiny
• John L. O'Sullivan
• Horace Greeley's Opposition to the War
• Sam Houston
• Santa Anna
• Reasons Southerners Supported the War
• Junior officers in the War (Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant)
• Mexican Flag Meaning
• Defeating the Mexican Army
• Winfield Scott
• Plan to Capture Mexico
• Treaty of Guadeloupe-Hidalgo
• Cultural Integration
• Mexican Cession
• The Present-Day States that were part of the Mexican Cession
• Effects on Mexicans living in the Mexican Cession
• Difficulties of Integration (Mexican Culture and Catholicism)
• White Settlement Accelerates to California (Discovery of Gold)

California Gold Rush Webquest (30 questions)

Topics:

• Cause of the Gold Rush
• Negative Effects of the Gold Rush (Destroyed Landscape, Exploitation of Mexicans, the Extermination of Native Americans, and Mistreatment of Asians)
• Discovery at Sutter's Mill
• James Marshall
• John Sutter
• Prospectors
• Non-Native Population
• Total Worth of Metal Extracted
• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
• Mexican-American War
• The Spread of News about Gold
• First Migrants to California (Oregon, Hawaii, Mexico, Chile, Peru, and China)
• James K Polk Announcement
• 49ers
• 3 routes to California (Overland, Sailed to Panama, Sailed around South America)
• Gold Mining Towns
• Negative Effects of Overcrowded Mining Camps (lawlessness, gambling, and violence)
• San Francisco
• California statehood
• Compromise of 1850
• Henry Clay
• Mining Peak in California
• The lasting impact of the Gold Rush

Transcontinental Railroad Webquest (33 questions)

Topics:

• Hardships of building the railroad
• Advantages of the railroad
• Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
• Central Pacific
• Union Pacific
• Financing of the Railroad
• Sierra Nevada Mountains
• Construction of the Railroad
• American Indians
• Bison
• Irish Immigrants (pay, living conditions, jobs, hours worked, and hardships)
• Winter of 1866 challenges
• Salt Lake City
• Promontory Summit
• Impact of the Railroad on the West, Industry, and Cattle
• Positive and Negative Effects of the Railroad

American West Webquest (45 questions)

Topics:

• Homestead Act
• Dawes Act
• Chief Joseph
• Cattle Drives
• Cowboys
• Indian Wars
• Transcontinental Railroad
• Wounded Knee