4th SS - 4 L 2 Study Guide

Why did people move to the Midwest?

• to find gold

• to have a new start away from crowded cities

• because of the Homestead Act

• All of the above

Upper Mississippi Valley Explorations

Who explored the Upper Mississippi Valley, proving that the Mississippi River flowed into the Gulf of Mexico?

• Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet

• Samuel de Champlain

• Tecumseh

• Lewis and Clark

What did French trappers ship from the Midwest to Montreal, Canada?

• coyote pelts

• beaver pelts

• deer pelts

Who started a settlement which eventually grew to be the city of Chicago?

• Jacques Marquette

• Louis Jolliet

• Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable

Early Settlement

What did Congress pass in 1787 for the Northwest Territory?

• Northwest Ordinance

• Missouri Compromise

• Homestead Act

The Northwest Ordinance helped which states become part of the Midwest?

• Ohio, Indiana Minnesota, Wisconsin

• Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, and Arkansas

• Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin

Settlers ignored the laws that stopped them from taking land from Native Americans.

• True

• False

The Northwest Territory included the areas around ___________.

• the Great Lakes

• the Gulf of Mexico

• the Atlantic Ocean

Crossing the Mississippi

What was the Louisiana Purchase?

• Land bought from France west of the colonies in 1803.

• A treaty between the US and Native Americans in 1819.

• Land bought from the Spanish in 1812

Who were the explorers sent by President Thomas Jefferson to explore the land west?

• Meriwether Lewis and William Clark

• John Deere

• Sacagawea and Louis Joliet