Western Expansion, Industry, Inventions, Civil War

Louisiana Purchase, Gadsden Purchase and Oregon Territory were areas added to the United States so it would stretch from coast to coast. This Belief was called:

• colonization

• Manifest Destiney

• gold rush

• annexation

Which inventor developed a tool to make farming easier for land that was hard and flat?

• John Cyrus

• Eli Whitney

• Robert Fulton

• John Deere

Look at the invention in the picture, what is the product that comes out of the machine that used in both the Northern and Southern states?

• tobacco for cigaretts

• firearms for weapons for war

• cotton for clothing

• energy for running machines in the North

Pioneers set of for California in search of ______________ while others set off west to find free or cheap _____________.

• land......gold

• gold......religion

• gold......land

• land......religion

Which geographic factor contributed to favorable conditions for plantations across the southern states in the early 1800's?

• lack of heavy rainfall

• location of major cities

• farm machines and livestock

• mild winters and warm summers

What is the best reason that Lewis and Clark went northwest instead of going straight west?

• They knew that Oregon was in the northwest corner of the US?

• They were following the Missouri River.

• They were avoiding cold weather.

• They met the Rocky Mountains and could not cross them.

Use this map to answer the question.....

• Lewis and Clark crossed an area of land that gave the US a small claim to the southwest region of the country.

• Lewis and Clark crossed the Rocky Mountains and claimed the desserts of New Mexico and Arizona for the US.

• Lewis and Clark crossed a huge area of land that gave the US claims to the northwest area.

• Lewis and Clark were forced to turn back when they met the Rocky Mountains, they never found the Pacific Ocean.

Using this map and your knowledge of the United States to answer this question. Which of these states was crossed by Lewis and Clark?

• Texas

• Nevada

• Louisiana

• Idaho

Modifying the environment can be found in this picture by what evidence...

• Pioneers brought valuables with them.

• Pioneers wore different clothes.

• Pioneers enclosed the land that they had claimed.

• Pioneers liverd with their family.

Oklahoma, Iowa and Kansas are the in region called:

• Industrial Region

• Technology Region

• Highland Region

• Agricultural Region