SS Benchmark- 3rd Grade

What does economic mean?

• Money

• Government

• People

What does political mean?

• Social

• Government

• Money

What does social mean?

• People

• Government

• Money

What is the Louisiana Purchase?

• The sale of the Louisiana territory from the French to the United States

• The war between the British and the Americans over the Mississippi River

• The United States stealing all of the land from the Native Americans

• The French selling the seafood and alligators to other countries across the Carribean

What is the border between the Louisiana purchase and the United States?

• Ohio River
• Colorado River
• Hudson River
• Mississippi River

How did the Louisiana Purchase change the United States?

• It doubled the size of the United States

• It caused the United States to lose all of the land in the United States

• It allowed the Spanish to take over Louisiana and Mississippi territories

• It did not change the United States

What was Lewis and Clark's goal?

• To establish a new colony
• To search for buried treasure
• To find new trade routes, settlements and new animals and plants

• To discover new mines of gold

What change occurred in Louisiana after the French sold Louisiana to the Americans?

• Louisiana became an independent country
• Louisiana went to war with France

• Louisiana got a new flag

• Louisiana became a British colony

What were the factors that led to increased immigration to the United States and its territories in the 1800's?

• Educational opportunities
• Climate change
• Economic opportunities, political and social disorder

• Technological advancements

What caused people to move (immigrate) to the United States during the 1800's? (push factor- pushed them out of their country)

• Political Disorder- there was a war in their country and wanted to move away

• They did not want to leave their country. It had everything they needed

• The British captured the immigrants and forced them to come to the United States

• Nobody came to the United States during the 1800's.