Topic 7

What does the word plurality mean?

• more than half

• the smallest share

• the largest share

What can you infer from this text?

• Tariffs made imported goods cheaper.

• Tariffs help some people but hurt others.

• The U.S. government wanted to stop trade with Europe.

Why did Southerners dislike the tariffs?

Select ALL the best answers.

• Because it encouraged Americans to buy American made goods.

• They thought that tariffs on European products might hurt their trade.

• They worried that due to tariffs they might have to pay higher prices for European goods.

• Tariffs meant lower prices for the goods they bought from their European trading partners.

What is the main idea of this text?

• Half of British Columbia is covered by mountains and the Oregon Country included the Rocky Mountains.

• California was larger than Oregon.

• The Oregon Country was a large region in the Pacific Northwest that included present-day U.S. states and part of Canada.

Why did people want to come to Oregon?

Select ALL the best answers.

• There was fertile land there.

• Major floods in the east made life difficult there.

• Pioneers heard reports of the Whitman Incident.

• The economic situation in the east was challenging.

What does the word "relocate" mean?

• to pay people for something they don't want to do

• move to another place

• to move to a place west of the Mississippi River

Predict why Native Americans may have been forced to move.

• Because the US government wanted the Native Americans to improve (what is now called) Oklahoma.

• Because the US government wanted to give the Native Americans better farmland.

• Because the US government wanted the land for American settlers.

What can you infer about fur traders?

• They were all born in Oregon.

• They all worked for the American Fur Company.

• They could make a lot of money by selling beaver skins.

Select all that are TRUE.

• The fur trade became an important industry led by companies like John Jacob Astor’s American Fur Company.

• John Jacob Astor started the American Fur Company to help European settlers find new homes

• The American Fur Company was created to help the U.S. government establish peaceful relationships with Native American tribes by offering them trade goods like blankets and tools.

• Fur traders were the first people from the eastern United States to settle in the Oregon Country, drawn by the demand for beaver pelts

What were "mountain men?"

• Men who set up trading posts in the mountains.

• Tough, independent men who spent most of their time in the Rocky Mountains.

• Tough, independent men who were born into slavery.

• Men who mapped the Rocky Mountains with Lewis and Clark.