Manifest Destiny
In 1835, the U.S government refused to annex Texas from Mexico. This is what "annex” means.
a. to sell
b. to give away
c. to take over
d. to buy
What is to take over?
If someone traveled by land with a covered wagon, this could go wrong during their trek.
a. They could run out of water.
b. Their wagons could break down.
c. Their animals might not have any grass to feed off of.
d. all of the above
What is all of the above?
Approximately, the number of individuals that were part of the Donner Party.
a. 12
b. 50
c. 80
What is about 80?
a person who is among those who first enter or settle a region
What is a pioneer?
This is where gold was first discovered in western United States.
a. Sacramento, California b. Portland, Oregon
c. Salt Lake City, Utah d. Las Vegas, Nevada
What is Sacramento, California?
Homesteading laws were designed to attract the following groups.
a. gold miners
b. farmers
c. trappers
d. mountain men
What are farmers?
The most plentiful source of fuel for campfires was
a. firewood
b. gasoline
c. animal dung
d. oil
What is animal dung?
The reason the Donner Part left the California Trail.
What is they wanted to use a short cut?
This doubled the size of the United States in 1803.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This expression best explains why pioneers traveled in wagon trains.
a. “Safety in numbers”
b. “Waste not, want not”
c. “Too many cooks spoil the broth”
d. “The more, the merrier”
What is “safety in numbers”?
This is the way mountain men and trappers prepared the West for settlement.
a. They paved roads through the West.
b. They killed most of the dangerous animals.
c. They fought off most of the hostile Indian tribes.
d. They mapped trails and helped build forts.
What is they mapped trails and helped build forts?
This was the biggest danger faced by travelers on the Oregon Trail.
a. buffalo
b. American Indian attacks
c. grizzly bears
d. disease
What is disease?
This was the difficult decision the remaining pioneers made after they became stranded.
What is they were starving and resorted to cannibalism to survive?
passing or extending across a continent
What is transcontinental?
This was the most common way for white settlers to travel to the Oregon Trail.
What is by foot?
If you were an American Indian leader, and you refused to move off your land, this is what most likely would happen to you.
a. The U.S. government would leave you alone.
b. American soldiers would show up and force you to move.
c. Your land would be declared an Indian reservation.
d. You would be taken to court by the U.S. government.
What is American soldiers would show up and force you to move?
When families reached their destinations, the work was not finished. This is the additional job they have to perform.
a. build houses
b. dig wells
c. clear fields for farming
d. all the above
What is all of the above?
The term “cannibalism” means this
What is to consume the meat of one’s own species?
to acquire or settle land given by the government
What is homesteading?
The most common food eaten by pioneers was
a. beef tips
b. bacon
c. deer meat
d. meadow muffins
What is bacon?
This is how a believer in Manifest Destiny might feel about American Indians.
a. That Indians were a key part of American society.
b. That the Indian way of life should be respected.
c. That white Americans had a lot to learn from the Indians.
d. That the Indians were standing in the way of progress.
What is that the Indians were standing in the way of progress?
On the frontier women had to constantly take part in dozens of jobs. This was the chore they did NOT usually perform on a regular basis.
a. pack and unpack supplies
b. cook
c. gathering wood
d. hunting
What is hunting?
Because of the weather, this is the mountain range where they were unable to successfully cross.
What are the Sierra-Nevada Mountains?
the belief that it was America’s mission to expand westward to the Pacific Ocean
What is Manifest Destiny?
Many Easterners did this before they moved out West.
a. They bought and traded for gold mining equipment.
b. They sold or gave away their belongings.
c. They paid a westward expansion tax
d. Both A & B
What is Both A & B?