Westward Movement Topic 6.4

About as soon as English colonists arrived in America in the 1600s, they started moving west. Quick westward expansion led to a tradition that helped define the nation.

​Westward Movement

• The selling of land attracted settlers, but it also brought the U.S. government much-needed income. The funds were required to settle debt incurred during the American Revolution.

• Revenue is money especially collected by a government or public use.

What is Revenue?

Multiple Choice

How did the United States government get revenue from the Northwest Ordinance?

• The government lost revenue and funds when it sold to settlers.

• The government earned revenue when it sold land to settlers.

• The government earned gold and valuables from the Northwest Ordinance.

• The United States gave revenue to the people that owned land for the government.

Multiple Choice

Settlers traveled down the ____ on flatboats.

Note: Many people moving to the Northwest Territory traveled

West along the Mohawk River and then sailed across Lake Erie.

• rivers

• oceans

• Mediterranean Sea

• glaciers

Multiple Choice

How did the Clermont and the Erie Canal help unite the country?

Note: Clermont was a steamboat built by Robert Fulton.

The Erie Canal was an artificial waterway. Both of these improvements increased travel and allowed travel to be quicker.

• They made travel from place to place harder but cheaper.

• They made travel from place to place more expensive and harder.

• They made travel from place to place faster and cheaper.

• They made travel from place to place more expensive but easier.

Multiple Choice

People move to different places to earn land and better opportunities to begin better lives.

• False

• True

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