Introduction to Westward Expansion

What was the goal of the Lewis and Clark expedition?

• to find gold

• to purchase the Oregon Territory

• to explore the Louisiana Purchase

• to trade with French Settlers

The Louisiana Purchase covered lands between the __________ and _________, and doubled the territory of the United States.

• Mississippi River and Rocky Mountains

• Mississippi River and the Pacific Ocean

• Appalachian Mountains and Pacific Ocean

• Appalachian Mountains & Mississippi River

Daniel Boone and a group of men built the Wilderness Road through the Cumberland Gap in the Appalachian Mountains. What effect did this Wilderness Road have?

• It opened the American West to settlement.

• . It increased the production of cotton and tobacco.

• It led to war with France.

• The government outlawed the sale of guns to Native Americans.

_______________ is the edge of a country or settled region

• frontier

• pioneer

• settlement

• route

_______________ is a large rectangular boat that was partially covered by a roof.

• expansion

• flatboat

• ferry

• frontier

People traveling west with Lewis and Clark were known as ____________________________________________.

• Scagawea

• Daniel Boone

• Corps of Discovery

• frontier

______________ growing making larger or expanding.

• Daniel Boone

• flatboat

• expansion

• frontier

8. __________________________ Explored, the newly purchased land from France that became the American Northwest, at the request of Thomas Jefferson.

• Lewis and Clark

• Daniel Boone

• Sacagawea

• Merriweather Lewis

________________ was a famous American frontiersman. He helped to settled land that became Kentucky.

• Thomas Jefferson

• Sacagawea

• Daniel Boone

• Lewis and Clark

_____________________ was a guide and an interpreter who helped Lewis and Clark along their journey.

• Daniel Boone

• Sacagawea

• Thomas Jefferson

• Santa Ana