8th Grade Module 11: Westward Expansion

1) A guide who was first to lead settlers beyond the Appalachians; he cut a road west.

• Meriwether Lewis

• Daniel Boone

• William Clark

• Zebulon Pike

2) Mormon leader who chose Utah as the group's new home.

• Zebulon Pike

• Brigham Young

• John C. Fremont

• None of the above

3) The main route from the Mississippi River to the West Coast in the early 1800's.

• The Ohio River Trail

• The Santa Fe Trail

• The Oregon Trail

• The Mississippi Trail

4) The purchase of Louisiana from France for $15 million, which roughly doubled the size of the United States.

• The Gadsden Purchase

• The Annexation of Texas

• The Louisiana Purchase

• None of the above

5) An area of land that is undeveloped.

• boomtowns

• cattle drives

• frontier

• none of these

6) The name given to an 1859 gold and silver discovery in western Nevada.

• Comstock Lode

• Cattle Kingdom

• Pony Express

• Bodie Minetown

7) When did the Lewis and Clark expedition begin its long journey into the Louisiana Territory?

• 1804

• 1806

• 1840

• 1842

8) Which of these was an effect of mining in the West?

• The female population grew as women were recruited to run businesses.

• The population increased greatly as people came hoping to get rich.

• Large mining companies invested in safer mining equipment.

• Large permanent cities developed around the mining camps.