Social Studies Q2

The name of the difficult journey that American Indians were forced to make.

• The Trail
• Trail of Tears
• Thomas Tibbles
• Oxen

Louisiana Purchase was a large area of land that the US purchased from Spain in the 1800's. 

• True 
• False

In 1803, the United States bought the Louisana Purchase from France for _________ .

• $25 Million
• $17 Million
• $15 Million
• $20 Million

First people to sign up for a homestead was _______ .

• Daniel Freeman
• Laura Wilder
• Willa Cather
• Booker T. Washington

Homesteading proved to be very difficult for many people because:

• Sod was difficult to plow.
• Sometimes people couldn't sell the crops that they had just grown.
• People had to pay high interest if they borrowed money to pay for the land.
• All of the above

The Quartering Act of 1765 said that ______.

• Colonists had to save quarters.
• Colonists had to pay a quarter taxd on all tea.
• Colonists had to provide quarters instead of nickels and dimes.
• Colonists had to provide living quarters to British Soldiers.

What were the three main goals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition?

• to find a water route to the Pacific Ocean, to build relationships with the Indians, to record information abou the soil, water, land, and etc.
• to build a bridge over the Mississippi River, to establish a trading post at Fort Mandan and  drive the Indians off the land.
• to start a war with the Shoshone Indians, to build a fort in Oregon, and to claim the Pacific for the US.

The Boston Tea Party of 1773 was done to protest _________.

• tea drinking in the Colonies.
• being forced to buy tea from the East Indian Company.
• King George drinking tea.
• parties in Bost.

Samuel Adams was a _________. 

• Governor
• Redcoat
• Loyalist
• Patriot

The Stamp Act, Townshend Acts, and Boston Massacre were some events that led to the __________. 

• World War I
• Civil War
• American Revolution 
• World War II