Cultural and Historical Impact Quiz

Identify one positive CULTURAL effect that people moving to a new area can have on an already established community.

• Creating more crime in the area

• Bringing new restaurants to the area

• Overpopulating the area

• Bringing more jobs to the area

Mr. Jones lives in a mountain community. He has decided that he would like to be a farmer. He will MOST LIKELY need to move to an area that has a longer growing season.

• Steep land

• Little water

• A longer growing season

• A shorter growing season

How did African Americans come to live in Kentucky?

• They moved here to get land to raise their family.

• Settlers brought them here as slaves.

• They came to escape the Civil War.

• They came because Kentucky started to look like the Deep South.

Which explorer traveled the East Coast of North America?

• Christopher Columbus

• Henry Hudson

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Giovanni de Verrazzano

Look at the 2 maps. What physical characteristics of the United States cause certain areas to be more highly populated?

• There is plenty of land in the mountain regions.

• People like to live where there isn’t much water.

• There are many rivers and lakes where it is highly populated.

• The climate is better in the mountain regions.

Look at the 2 maps. What do you notice about the area of the country with the lowest population?

• There are a lot of mountains and deserts.

• There are large areas of water.

• There are many forests to build homes.

• There is plenty of land to grow crops.

Which of the following is evidence of how Mexican culture is diffused in Kentucky? Choose 2 correct answers.

• Cinco de Mayo

• Chinese restaurants

• Chinese New Year

• Oktoberfest

• Mariachi music

Study the map. Select the geographic feature that helps ranchers in Colorado as well as ranchers in Utah and Arizona.

• The Colorado River

• The Rocky Mountains

• The Great Plains

• Arkansas River

Settlers modified the physical environment to meet their needs during the early settlement of the United States. Which of the following is NOT a change that affected the environment during early settlement?

• There was less water available in the rivers and streams.

• Trees were cut down to make shelter.

• Land was cultivated for crops.

• Land use used to create roads.