Exploration and Settlement in America

What was the purpose of the Santa Fe Trail?

• To find the 7 cities of gold

• International trade route

• Trade with Natives

• Settlers fulfilling Manifest Destiny

What was the purpose of the Oregon/California Trail?

• International trade route

• To find the 7 cities of gold

• The right of government to take private property for public use

• Settlers fulfilling Manifest Destiny

What does eminent domain refer to?

• A notion held by nineteenth-century Americans about the destiny of the United States

• The right of government to take private property for public use

• People living in permanent villages and cultivating crops

• Trade with Natives

What characterizes sedentary tribes?

• People moved often, following the buffalo herds and gathering wild foods

• People lived in permanent villages and cultivated crops

• Nomadic tribes living in tipis year-round

• Settlers fulfilling Manifest Destiny

What characterizes nomadic tribes?

• People lived in permanent villages and cultivated crops

• The right of government to take private property for public use

• People moved often, following the buffalo herds and gathering wild foods

• A notion held by nineteenth-century Americans about the destiny of the United States

What is Manifest Destiny?

• The right of government to take private property for public use

• People lived in permanent villages and cultivated crops

• A notion held by nineteenth-century Americans that the United States was destined to rule the continent, from the Atlantic to the Pacific

• Trade with Natives

Which two explorers characterized Kansas as a desert?

• Coronado and Zebulon Pike

• Zebulon Pike and Stephen Long

• Stephen Long and Coronado

• Lewis and Clark

What was the goal of French Explorers in Kansas?

• To find the 7 cities of gold

• Settlers fulfilling Manifest Destiny

• Trade with Natives

• International trade route

What was the goal of Coronado's expedition?

• Trade with Natives

• Settlers fulfilling Manifest Destiny

• To find the 7 cities of gold

• International trade route

Which tribes lived in tipis year-round?

• Sedentary Tribes

• Nomadic Tribes

• French Explorers

• Tribes fulfilling Manifest Destiny