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WorksheetsWestward Expansion Vocabulary
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 8mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
______ helped Lewis & Clark was a guide & translator on their expedition west.
a)
Sacagawea
b)
Thomas Jefferson
c)
Zebulon Pike
d)
Daniel Boone
2.
____ purchased the Louisiana Purchase from France in 1803.
a)
Andrew Jackson
b)
Daniel Boone
c)
Thomas Jefferson
d)
Zebulon Pike
3.
______ explored the upper regions of the Mississippi River & part of the southwest Spanish Territory - made treaties with Native Americans.
a)
Zebulon Pike
b)
Daniel Boone
c)
Lewis & Clark
d)
Thomas Jefferson
4.
... an early settler of a region ...
a)
Daniel Boone
b)
pioneer
c)
Lewis & Clark
d)
Zebulon Pike
5.
______ led an expedition to explore the Louisiana Purchase.
a)
Daniel Boone
b)
Lewis & Clark
c)
Zebulon Pike
d)
Thomas Jefferson
6.
______ was an American pioneer who led many settlers to lands west of the Appalachian Mountains.
a)
Zebulon Pike
b)
Daniel Boone
c)
Lewis & Clark
d)
Thomas Jefferson
7.
____ is the belief that the United States should expand west to the Pacific Ocean.
a)
Manifest Destiny
b)
Wilderness Road
c)
Cumberland Gap
d)
wagon train
8.
Daniel Boone established the ____ so pioneers could travel through the Appalachian Mountains from Virginia to Kentucky.
a)
Manifest Destiny
b)
Cumberland Gap
c)
Wilderness Road
d)
wagon train
9.
A common method of transportation to the West was the ____. It helped groups travel more safely.
a)
wagon train
b)
pioneer
c)
Manifest Destiny
d)
Cumberland Gap
10.
The ____ is a pass through the Appalachian Mountains in northeastern Tennessee.
a)
Wilderness Road
b)
wagon train
c)
Cumberland Gap
d)
pioneer
11.
Explorers looked for the ____, but never found the water route that connected the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.
a)
Northwest Passage
b)
Cumberland Gap
c)
Appalachian Mountains
d)
Wilderness Road
12.
The United States purchased the ____ from France in 1803.
a)
Wilderness Road
b)
Cumberland Gap
c)
Louisiana Purchase
d)
Thomas Jefferson
13.
... established the first United States settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains ...
a)
Thomas Jefferson
b)
Lewis & Clark
c)
Daniel Boone
d)
Zebulon Pike
14.
... established the Wilderness Trail ...
a)
Thomas Jefferson
b)
Lewis & Clark
c)
Daniel Boone
d)
Zebulon Pike
15.
SELECT the primary GOALS of the Lewis & Clark expedition ...
a)
to explore and map the land
b)
to seek a Northwest Passage
c)
to meet Native Americans
d)
to establish a national road
16.
.... WHY MOVE WEST ...
a)
cheap farmland
b)
opportunities to make money
c)
new life
d)
freedom of religion
e)
to take land from the Native Americans
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