Chapter 8 - Lessons 3 & 4

LESSON 3
What is a WAGON TRAIN?

• a line of wagons traveling as a group
• named after a type of ship, a wagon that was
  designed for the trip to the west
• poor treatment that a group suffers because of
  its beliefs

LESSON 3
What is a PRAIRIE SHOONER?

• a line of wagons traveling as a group
• named after a type of ship, a wagon that was
  designed for the trip to the west
• poor treatment that a group suffers because of
  its beliefs

LESSON 3
What is PERSECUTION?

• a line of wagons traveling as a group
• named after a type of ship, a wagon that was
  designed for the trip to the west
• poor treatment that a group suffers because of
  its beliefs

LESSON 3
How did the Native Americans react to the flow of pioneer settlers traveling and moving into the western United States? 

• Native Americans often met the settlers’ wagon trains and traded with them. They
  attacked the pioneers only rarely.
• Native Americans were furious because of the wagon trains. They killed as many
  pioneers as they could. 
• Native American nations in the West allied and demanded large payments from the
  pioneers in exchange for letting them continue their journey west.
• Native Americans avoided the pioneers. They did not want to have any contact with
  them.

LESSON 3
There were several major trails that pioneers followed in their journeys to the American
West. Which of the following correctly identifies two of those trails?

• the Old Spanish Trail and the Appalachian Trail
• the Oregon Trail and the Mormon Trail
• the Santa Fe Trail and the Northwest Passage
• the Continental Divide and the Oregon Trail

LESSON 4
What was the GOLD RUSH?

• someone who takes risks to start a business
• a rapid flood of people into an area where this metal
  has been discovered
• a system of carrying mail by horse  

LESSON 4
What was an ENTREPRENEUR?

• someone who takes risks to start a business
• a rapid flood of people into an area where this metal
  has been discovered
• a system of carrying mail by horse  

LESSON 4
What was the PONY EXPRESS?

• someone who takes risks to start a business
• a rapid flood of people into an area where this metal
  has been discovered
• a system of carrying mail by horse  

LESSON 4
Which of the following describes a correct sequence of events in the mining of gold
in California?

• When the first miners arrived, gold was so abundant that they could gather it out of shallow streams. When all of that gold had been taken, miners blasted with dynamite to uncover deeper gold deposits. Finally, miners began to use electronic equipment to find very deep gold deposits. 
• Once the obvious deposits of gold were taken from shallow streams, miners returned to the eastern United States. 
• The gold rush began when miners began blasting away large areas of mountains to expose gold deposits. Some of this gold found its way into streams, and the miners “panned” that gold. Finally, the miners continued northward into Canada, where they failed to find any more gold. 
• At first, miners “panned” for gold in places where river currents slowed. Then, they developed the sluice, which was a long wooden box that they placed in streams. Finally, mining companies brought in rock-crushing machines to extract gold on a large scale.

LESSON 4
Which of the following was an important factor in California’s becoming a state?

• As a result of the gold rush, California’s population grew so much that it had enough
  people to become a state.
• The Mexican vaqueros finally left California, and settlers began pouring in from the
  eastern United States. 
• Cotton farmers from the East and their enslaved Africans moved in large numbers
  to California. Cotton farming became California’s most important business.
• The United States Army forced all of the Native Americans who lived in California
  to relocate to the Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma.