5-2.1 Through 4 Review

What major advancement in travel is pictured in this map?

• the transcontinental railroad

• the first interstate highway

• the Erie Canal

• the Santa Fe Trail

What geographic obstacle to westward expansion is represented by the shaded area?

• Appalachian Mountains

• Great Lakes

• Rocky Mountains

• Mississippi River

This is an excerpt from the journal of a young girl who traveled with her family across the Great Plains to California:

The wagons were placed in a hollow square, as a precaution against Indians, but we never encountered any, except friendly ones. There was, however, another and more deadly enemy lurking in our pathway, disease--though we did not suspect it. It was caused by bad water, the entire lack of sanitation, and the unavoidable exposure to all classes of people, from all quarters of the globe. Based on this girl's account, what conclusion can be drawn about traveling west?

• Settlers did not encounter other people on their journey.

• People traveling west were well prepared for all the challenges they might face.

• Native Americans were the greatest threat to wagon trains traveling west.

• Geographic and environmental challenges were not the only obstacles faced by settlers.

What title best completes this diagram?

______________(Topic)

Fording Multiple Rivers

Enduring extreme weather conditions

Crossing the Rocky Mountains

Suffering Sickness and Injury

• Problems Faced by Sharecroppers

• Advantages of Westward Settlement

• Obstacles to Traveling West

• Reasons People Immigrated to the United States

Due to the heavy winter snows and spring rains, what geographic feature was an obstacle to settlers moving west?

• the Snake River

• the Grand Canyon

• the Great Desert

• the Rocky Mountains

These notes were taken by a student in social studies class. Which title would complete these notes?

______________ (Title)

Blizzards

Locusts

Tornados

Drought

Dust Storms

• Problems Encountered by Gold Miners in California

• Challenges to Industrializing America

• Obstacles Faced by Blacks after the Civil War

• Challenges to Settling the Great Plains

This diagram shows some obstacles to westward expansion.

Obstacles to Westward Migration (Title)

Deserts

Rivers

______________(Missing Obstacle)

Which obstacle best completes the diagram?

• mountains

• expensive land

• hurricanes

• oceans

How did the invention of the steel plow impact the settlement of the western territories?

• It made it too expensive to move west, and most people could not afford to settle in the area.

• It made it possible to farm the land in the Great Plains, opening up the area for settlement.

• It made it easier for miners to look for gold, so more people came to the West to work in the mines.

• It made it possible to set up irrigation systems to water crops, so settlers could start growing wheat.

Whitman wrote this poem to honor what new technology?

Thy black cylindric body, golden brass and silvery steel...

The dense and murky clouds out-belching from thy smoke-stack...

Thy knitted frame, thy springs and valves-the tremulous twinkle of thy wheels...

Thy train of cars behind, obedient, merrily-following...

Thy madly-whistled laughter, echoing, rumbling like an earthquake, rousing all!...

Launch'd o'er the prairies wide-across the lakes,

To the free skies, unpent, and glad, and strong.

- Excerts from a poem by Walt Whitman

• the light bulb

• railroads

• telephone

• windmills

______________(Title)

Steel Plow

Barbed wire

Refrigerator Cars

Which title would best complete this chart?

• New Farming Techniques in the South

• Inventions to Help Farmers and Ranchers on the Great Plains

• Important American Exports

• Inventions by Immigrants to the United States