Westward Expansion Timeline Quiz

Why did the King of England create the Proclamation of 1763?

• The King wanted the colonist to pay $5.00 to pass through the Appalachian Mountains.

• The Native Americans were angry that the colonist were moving into their lands west of the Appalachian Mountains. The King was trying to keep the colonist and the Native Americans from fighting one another.

• The Proclamation was created so that the colonist could move west of the Appalachian Mountains.

• The Proclamation said that the King of England would pay for the development of the Transcontinental Railroad.

Looking at your timeline, determine how many years there are between the Proclamation of 1763 and when Daniel Boone explored and mapped the Wilderness road.

• 1 year

• 5 years

• 10 years

• 12 years

What mountain range did the Wilderness Road go through?

• Rocky Mountains

• Ozark Mountains

• Columbia Mountains

• Appalachian Mountains

What is an effect of the Wilderness Road being explored and mapped?

• No one wanted to travel the Appalachian Mountains.

• Kentucky became the 15th state of the United States in 1792.

• Daniel Boone was arrested because of his travels through Kentucky.

• Settlers moved away from Kentucky because there were not enough natural resources in the area to use for building homes.

What year did Thomas Jefferson buy the Louisiana purchase from France for $15,000,000.

• 2021

• 1903

• 1803

• 1776

What caused President Jefferson to purchase the Louisiana Purchase?

• The president was looking for a cheaper way to ship goods over the Appalachian Mountains and knew that if the United States owned the land that they could ship goods down the Mississippi River and out of New Orleans; which was a port city on the Gulf of Mexico.

• The president had family that lived in the Oregon Territory and he wanted to protect them.

• The Native Americans decided that they would only move from the Louisiana Territory if the United States government paid them 15,000,000.

• There was gold to be found in the Louisiana purchase around the Mississippi River and the president wanted the settlers to find it and strike it rich!

What was the name of Explorers that traveled, explored, and mapped the Louisiana Purchase?

• Marco polo

• Christopher Columbus

• Carl Hawks

• Lewis and Clark

What land forms or physical features did Lewis and Clark encounter in their journey. Check the three answers that apply.

• Atlantic Ocean

• Pacific Ocean

• Rocky Mountains

• Missouri River

• Appalachian Mountains

What was the name of the law that the United States Government passed that moved Native Americans west of the Mississippi River

• The Missouri Compromise

• The Indian Removal Act

• The Wilderness Trail Act

• The Proclamation of 1763.

Looking at your timeline, determine how many years separated the events of the Indian Removal Act and the Trial of tears.

• 1 year

• 5 years

• 8 years

• 20 years