1)  Did Lewis and Clark succeed in finding a direct water route across North America?

      Why or why not?

              No, because the Rocky Mountains separated the flow of rivers across the continent. Lewis and Clark had to cross the mountains by foot.

2) From where did most immigrants to the United States come during the late 1700s and

     early 1800s?

               Europe

3)  What were the effects of the Indian Removal Act?

                It broke many treaties between American Indians and the United States. The act allowed the United States government to force all American Indians east of the Mississippi River to give up their land and move west to the Indian Territory in what is now Oklahoma.

4)   What physical barrier did settlers cross by using the Cumberland Gap?

             The Appalachian Mountains

5)   How did the Louisiana Purchase affect the United States?

          It doubled the size  of the country. It changed the western border of the nation to the Rocky Mountains. It led Americans to explore more of North America. It eventually added new states.

6)  What method of transportation did the earliest settlers from the East use to reach the

      Ohio River valley in the West?

            Overland wagons

7)   How did the early pioneers west of the Appalachian Mountains use natural resources?

           They used wood from the trees to build log cabins, to burn in their fireplaces, and make tools. They used the land to grow food and graze their animals. They used rivers and streams for transportation and for their water needs.

8)   What does the word canal mean?

           A waterway dug across the land

9)  Why did waves of immigrants move to the United States during the late 1700s and

      early 1800s?

              to escape the hardship in their homeland, for economic incentives, for the chance to buy their own land and open their businesses , for religious and political freedom.

10)   What is the best graph to show change over time?

               Line graph

11)   What was a state formed from the Northwest Territory?

             Ohio

12)  What was the start and end of the expedition of Lewis and Clark?

               St. Louis and the Pacific Ocean

13)  When did Francis Scott Key write the words to “The Star-Spangled Banner”?

              After a battle of the War of 1812

14)  What American Indian leader argued for Cherokee rights before the Supreme Court

       in Washington D.C.?

               Chief John Ross

15)  What leader openly opposed the Indian Removal Act?

              John Marshall

16)  Daniel Boone crosses the Cumberland Gap or Kentucky become a state.

          1      2

17)  Settlers use steamboats for transportation or Settlers use flatboats for transportation.

     2                 1

18)  The United States purchases Louisiana from France or Spain agrees to give Florida to the United States.

            1                                  2

19)  Zebulon Pike begins his expedition to the Southwest or Lewis and Clark begin their

       expedition to the West.

            2                                  1

20)  Andrew Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act or Tecumseh tries to unite Indian

        nations against the United States.

            2                                  1