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Europeans in Kansas
American Exploration
Moving West
True or False
100
Spanish explorer who traveled into central Kansas in search of the mythical city of gold, Quivira.
Francisco Vasquez de Coronado
100
Francisco Vasquez de Coronado encountered the village of this Indian tribe in Kansas near the Arkansas River?
Wichita
100
The description of Kansas as "The Great Desert" led Americans to think that Kansas would be...
A difficult place for Americans to settle but a good place to relocate Indian tribes
100

True or False

Eminent domain was the belief that the United States should expand westward

False
100

The Indian Removal Act increased tensions between various Indian tribes relocated to Kansas

True

200
U.S. President Thomas Jefferson sent these two explorers through the Louisiana Territory to find a water route that reached the Pacific Ocean.
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
200
French explorers and traders came to Kansas to establish this with the Indians.
trade relationships
200
Why was the U.S. government's policy of relocation hard on Indians that were forced to move to Kansas?
Living conditions were unfamiliar and different from their traditional way of life
200
This was an important international trade route for moving freight
Santa Fe Trail
200

True or False

Generally the relationship between American Indians living along the Oregon-California Trail and the immigrants moving west was one of cooperation

True
300

The first American explorer to travel through western Kansas, compared Kansas to the deserts of Africa, and claimed to be lost in the territory claimed by Spain.

Zebulon Pike

300

True or False

When the French and Spanish explorers first came to Kansas there was no one living here.

False
300

True or False

Indian tribes were forced to emigrate to Kansas and assigned to reservations

True
300
This trail over 2000 miles long moved families to new homes in the west
Oregon-California Trail
300

True or False

The U.S. population did not grow until the 1970s.

False
400

Trader from Missouri who helped start the Santa Fe Trail.

William Becknell


400

True or False

Europeans brought trade goods to American Indians, but they also brought them diseases.

True
400

Belief that the United States should expand west so that the country went from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. Our God given right

Manifest Destiny

400

True or False

It took immigrants four to six months to travel from western Missouri to the West Coast on the Oregon-California Trail

True
400

True or False

Meriwether Lewis and William Clark seemed to like Kansas, mentioning there was a variety of game and the prairie was beautiful

True
500

Member of the Delaware tribe who operated a ferry boat on the Kansas River.

Annie Marshall Grinter

500

DAILY DOUBLE

What did Spanish explorers call the Indian who led them in search of the mythical city of Quivira, and away from his homeland?

"the Turk"
500
These places converted Indian children to Christianity and  teach them vocational skills
Mission schools or boarding schools
500

True or False

Travelers on the Santa Fe Trail had so much food that they did not have to ration

False