S.S Ch 5 Test CONCEPTS

Question 1

In the late 1700s, where did settlers begin settling?

Answer 1

Between the Atlantic Ocean and the Appalachian mountains

Question 2

What made it illegal for colonist to settle on native American lands west of the mountains?

Answer 2

Proclamation of 1763

Question 3

Daniel Boone was a pioneer who traveled along The Cumberland gap What did he build to make this easier?

Answer 3

The wilderness Road

Question 4

What did Daniel Boone build in 1757

Answer 4

A Wilderness Road

Question 5

What are 2 things that the wilderness road allow pioneers to do?

Answer 5

1 It allowed pioneers to cross the mountains more easily and
2 it helped people to settle farther west - to the frontier

Question 6

The wilderness Road helped people settle further west, to the frontier. What was beyond this?

Answer 6

Native American lands were beyond the frontier.

Question 7

Louisiana was purchased by who and why?

Answer 7

Louisiana was purchased by Thomas Jefferson to expand to the land west of the Mississippi River from France

Question 8

Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?

Answer 8

A French ruler

Question 9

What effect did the Louisiana purchase have on the size of the United States?

Answer 9

It doubled the size of the United States

Question 10

What did Lewis and Clark explore and what were they looking for?

Answer 10

They explored the newly purchased land out west

They were looking for a water route to the Pacific Ocean.

Question 11

Who joined Lewis and Clark as an interpreter

Answer 11

Sacajawea

Question 12

What is unique about the Maps made by Lewis, Clark, and Sacajawea?

Answer 12

The map had mountains and rivers that were never shown before

Question 13

How did Lewis and Clark find a way to cross the continent?

Answer 13

Through passes in the Rocky Mountains

Question 14

Lewis and Clark efforts led the way for future…

Answer 14

For future pioneers and traders in the West

Question 15

Who signed the Indian removal act in 1830?

Answer 15

President Andrew Jackson

Question 16

Where were Native Americans forced to move?

Answer 16

Farther west

Question 17

As time pasted Native Americans all moved to where?

Answer 17

They all moved to Indian territory (Oklahoma)

Question 18

On the trail of tears, many died due to what?

Answer 18

Starvation and disease

Question 19

What did new forms of transportation allow?

Answer 19

It allowed people and goods to travel even faster

Question 20

Samuel Slater and Francis Cabot Lowell opened what?

Answer 20

They opened cotton spinning textile mills or factories

Question 21

What type of machines did Samuel Slater and Francis Cabot Lowell have in their factories?

Answer 21

They both had cotton spinning machines and power looms that wove yarn into cloth

Question 22

What did Eli Whitney invent and what did it do?

Answer 22

He invented the cotton gin that remove seeds from a cotton plant.

Question 23

What powered transportation at this time?

Answer 23

Steam power

Question 24

What did Robert Fulton invent in 1807?

Answer 24

He invented a steam powered boat. This allowed boats to travel without wind or currents

Question 25

What did the Erie canal do for travel?

Answer 25

It made water travel to more cities and towns easier or possible

Question 26

What did the Erie canal connect?

Answer 26

It connected the Hudson river to the lake Erie

Question 27

What is manifest destiny?

Answer 27

The idea that the United States should expand westward to reach the Oregon Trail, California and other areas in the west

Question 28

What were boom towns?

Answer 28

They were towns and people wanted to sell their goods and services to miners who were looking for gold.

Question 29

What was the cause of the Civil War?

Answer 29

Disagreements Among the northern and southern states regarding government and slavery

Question 30

What was the effect the Civil War had?

Answer 30

 Emancipation proclamation ended slavery in 1863 issued by Abraham Lincoln

Question 31

What was the northern states position in the Civil War?

Answer 31

- They wanted strong national government | - They thought slavery was wrong

Question 32

What did the Northern states consider themselves a part of?

Answer 32

The Union, the United States

Question 33

Who led the Northern states military?

Answer 33

General Ulysses S. Grant

Question 34

What was the result of the Civil War?

Answer 34

 The northern states won the war and slavery was outlawed

Question 35

What did the Southern States want in the Civil War?

Answer 35

They wanted each state to make their own decisions

Question 36

What did the south states economy rely on?

Answer 36

It relied on slavery to work on plantations

Question 37

What did the southern states consider themselves a part of?

Answer 37

a part of the confederacy, confederate states of America

Question 38

Who led the Southern States?

Answer 38

Robert E. Lee

Question 39

Other than the cotton gin what else did Eli Whitney do?

Answer 39

He also made guns for the United States Army using mass production

Question 40

What other mode of travel used steam?

Answer 40

Steam powered trains

Question 41

What was the results of these boomtowns in the gold rush?

Answer 41

so many people stayed in the boomtowns after the Gold Rush that California had enough people to become a state in 1850