The Move West

What is a commonwealth?

• a common person who is wealthy

• another name for a state

• another name for a bank

• none of these are right

What is a frontier?

• a tier that is in the front

• unsettled or unmapped land

• a person that discovers land

• none of these are right

How did the geography of the Cumberland Gap impact the settlers?

• it did not have any water around it to cross

• it provided an opening through the mountains

• it was a good hiding place from the enemies

• none of these are right

Why did many tobacco farms in the Commonwealth of Virginia began to collapse?

• years of planting without crop rotation

• years of planting without proper use of fertilizers

• both of these reasons

• neither of these reasons

What happened to the slaves during the westward migration? (2 answers)

• they went with their masters

• they went back to Africa

• they were killed

• they were sold to other slaveowners

What other kind of plantation and invention led to the opening of new lands in the South?

• cotton and the cotton gin

• corn and the tractor

• potatoes and the plow

• none of these

Which invention took the place of many farm workers and caused them to leave VA?

• cotton gin

• horse and plow

• mechanical reaper

• none of these

Which cultures did the people from VA take with them as they migrated west?

(choose all answers that are correct)

• house and barn styles

• labor systems

• political ideas

• laws

Which was one of the toughest parts of leaving Virginia?

• leaving family and friends

• not being able to leave before they sold their land

• not wanting to travel in bad weather

• crossing the Appalachian Mountains

The book says "As slavery spread to new areas, troubles erupted". This was probably because

• it caused the new areas to be overcrowded

• the slaves did not want to leave VA

• all of the new areas did not feel the same way about slavery

• laws in the new areas said slaves must be paid