Chapter 3 Review

The description of Kansas as “The Great Desert” led Americans to think that Kansas would:

• Be a difficult place for Americans to settle but a good place to relocate Indian tribes.

• Be a great place for vacation.

• Be good land for a buffalo reserve.

• Be land that could be sold back to the Europeans.

The U.S. government’s policy of relocation was hard on the Indians forced to move to Kansas because:

• There were many Americans that were against it.

• Many of them had already adopted the customs of Americans.

• Living conditions in Kansas were unfamiliar and this made their traditional way of life difficult.

• So many Americans had already moved here that there was little room.

Mission schools were established to:

• Convert Indian children to Christianity and teach them vocational skills.

• Help traders move their supplies from the ships.

• Teach people how to become missionaries.

• Teach people to build schools.

The Sante Fe Trail:

• Helped families cross the country to settle in the west.

• Allowed explorers to travel west by boat.

• Helped eastern Indians return to their ancestral land.

• Was an important international trade route for moving freight.

The Oregon-California Trail:

• Was used to relocate American Indians from the east.

• Was used to move families to new homes in the west.

• Was an easy path to Mexico.

• Was part of the national interstate system of highways.

Manifest Destiny was the belief that:

• The United States should expand west so that the country went from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.

• The United States should be a monarchy, with a king as its leader.

• The United States should push the American Indians west.

• Everyone in America should live on a farm.

What was Meriwether Lewis and William Clark’s opinion of Kansas?

• They did not like Kansas, they thought it was flat, dry & boring.

• They did not form an opinion of Kansas because they were not in Kansas long enough.

• They liked Kansas, mentioning that there was a variety of game and that the prairie was very beautiful.

• They loved Kansas because they stopped in Kansas & did not go any further in their exploration.

As the population of the United States grew:

• So did the Americans desire for land.

• So did the population of Native Americans.

• The Native Americans took over more land.

• So did the population of the buffalo.

What were Indian tribes forced to emigrate to Kansas assigned to?

• Tipis

• Prisoner of war camps

• U.S. military

• Reservations

The Indian Removal Act

• Increased tensions between various Indian tribes relocated to Kansas.

• Led to the death of thousands of United States soldiers.

• Was signed into law by President Andrew Johnson.

• All of the above