Push and Pull Factors for Westward Expansion 5th Grade

Push and Pull Factors for Westward Expansion 5th Grade

Multiple Choice

What is "climate"?

• the features of the surface of a piece of land

• the average weather conditions in a place over a long period of time (years)

• Where it is located

Multiple Choice

What is terrain?

• Where it is located

• the features of the surface of a piece of land

• the average weather conditions in a place over a long period of time (years)

Multiple Choice

What is "region"?

• the average weather conditions in a place over a long period of time (years)

• where it is located

• the surface area of a piece of land

Multiple Choice

What is Manifest Destiny?

• the idea that the United States was destined to occupy all of the land between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

• what made push and pull factors

• the reason why people did not move west

Multiple Choice

What are push factors?

• the reason why people chose to stay in a certain area

• the reasons why people left the east

• the reasons why people chose the West

Multiple Choice

What are pull factors?

• the reason why people left the east

• the reasons why people were drawn to the west

• the reasons why no one moved west

Open Ended

Push factors were reasons why people left the East and decided to move West. List push factors that made people want to leave the East.

Open Ended

Pull factors are reasons why people were drawn to the West. What were some of the pull factors for settlers headed west?

Open Ended

Describe a desert.

Open Ended

Describe the Great Plains.

Open Ended

Describe the Rocky Mountains.

Multiple Choice

What is NOT a river travelled across by settlers headed west?

• Mississippi River

• Missouri River

• Thames River

• Columbia River