American History Quiz

Who won the French and Indian War and also controlled the land west of the Appalachian Mountains?

• English

• Native Americans

• French

A person who travels into unknown land to settle there is called a (a)   .

• pioneer

• blacksmith

• frontier

Daniel Boone's trail started in Virginia and ended in ______.

• Tennessee
• North Carolina

• Kentucky

The Kentucky settlement that was named after Daniel Boone was called (a)   .

• Boonesborough

• Wilderness Road

• Second Great Awakening

Open free land where few people have settled is called a (a)   .

• frontier

• pioneer

• wilderness

The trail that Daniel Boone marked became known as (a)   .

• Wilderness Road

• Boonesborough

• Second Great Awakening

Who did Peter Cartwright run against for the Illinois legislature and the United States Senate?

• Abraham Lincoln
• George Washington

• Daniel Boone

Kentucky was purchased from the (a)   Nation.

• Cherokee

• Native American

• Shawnee

Who was the circuit-riding preacher who helped bring about the Second Great Awakening?

• Daniel Boone

• Colonel Richard Henderson

• Peter Cartwright

Label the map.

a

b

c

d

e

f

Kentucky

West Virgina

South Carolina

North Carolina

Virginia

Tennessee