American Progress

Multiple Choice

What was the term for the idea that expansion was the right of the US?

• Manifest Destiny
• Righteous Growth
• Sovereign Development
• Due Process

Multiple Choice

Which mountains did the Settlers have to cross?

• Rocky Mountains

• Appalachian Mountains

• Andes Mountains

• Alps

Multiple Choice

What was the MAIN reason the government wanted Native Americans on reservations

• to keep them from starving

• to take their land

• to preserve the remaining buffalo

• to teach them new skills

Multiple Choice

After the Revolutionary War, many settlers moved to the western frontier and beyond. Which term best describes this group of people?

• merchants
• pioneers
• patroons
• soldiers

Multiple Choice

Allowed farmers to break up dry tough soil of the Great Plains.

• sod house

• windmill

• steel plow

• barbed wire

Multiple Choice

Allowed farmers to keep cattle from nearby ranches off their fields and away from their crops.

• steel plow

• barbed wire

• windmill

• sod house

Multiple Choice

On water, these inventions helped move people and products up and down rivers --

• Steamboat

• Locomotive

• Kayak

• Canoe

Multiple Choice

Which types of waterways provided faster transportation to the west in the 1800's?

• Canals and rivers
• Oceans and seas
• Lakes and ponds
• Streams and creeks

Multiple Choice

What type of transportation made it faster and easier to get out West during the 1800s?

• Steam locomotive

• Canoe

• Airplane

• Car

Multiple Choice

TRUE or FALSE: The journey was long, but easy for the pioneers moving West.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is NOT a reason people moved West?

• Gold

• Land ownership

• Farming opportunities

• Freedom

• A stress-free, easy life