Westward Review Assessment

What is territory #3?

• Texas Annexation

• Oregon Territory

• Louisiana Purchase

• Red River Valley

• Florida

People rushed to California because ______.

• the government said it would give away land

• towns in the East Coast were too crowded

• they wanted to find gold

The road that took people west was called the ______.

• Oregon Trail

• Rocky Mountains

• Pony Express

A person who trains horses and guards cattle is called a ______.

• forty-niner

• settler

• cowboy

Plains Native Americans got most of what they needed from ______.

• oxen

• bison

• cattle

According to the map, which land acquisition doubled the size of the United States?

• Texas
• Floridia
• Louisiana Purchase
• Oregon Territory 

On the Oregon Trail, which type of transportation was used? 

• canoes
• sleds
• steamboats
• wagons

How did the Lewis and Clark expedition help further pioneers? 

• They brought back gold, silver, and many spices
• They brought back maps showing the major rivers, mountains, and important passes through the Rocky Mountains.
• They made maps of Texas and New Mexico. 
•  They told many stories of buffalo and Native Americans

List an obstacle that settlers faced traveling west.

• mountains
• crossing rivers
• the great plains
• all of the above

How did the development of the railroad impact the bison population?

• the amount of bison did not change
• the amount of bison decreased
• the amount of bison increased
• bison migrated east