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Establishing Kentucky

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 18mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is a Primary Source?

a)

a textbook

b)

a newspaper

c)

a letter

d)

a fictional novel

2.

Why did explorers travel through the Cumberland Gap?

a)

because this was the shortest route

b)

it is the only way to get through the mountains

c)

it was a detour they had to take

d)

a sign led them that way

3.

Who was hired to cross the Cumberland Gap and explore the wilderness on the other side?

a)

Colonel Andrew Lewis

b)

James Harrod

c)

Richard Henderson

d)

Daniel Boone

4.

Why was the Proclamation of 1763 written?

a)

England did not want to to fight any more Indian wars

b)

think of later

5.

Which was NOT the name of the group of Native Americans that lived in Kentucky?

a)

Cherokees

b)

Chickasaw

c)

Navajo

d)

Shawnee

6.

What does 'Kentucky' mean?

a)

place of meadows

b)

home of chicken

c)

land of tomorrow

d)

Heaven is a Kentucky kind of place

7.

Why was the French and Indian War important?

a)

They didn't get along

b)

The Indians stole something from the French

c)

The British were mistreating the Indians

d)

They both wanted to be the greatest power in the new world

8.

What is Fort Boonesborough?

a)

The first settlement in Kentucky

b)

A war battle ground

c)

A place of land settled by Daniel Boone

d)

The largest settlement in Kentucky

9.

What do artifacts tell us about people who lived in Kentucky?

a)

They are painting they made

b)

They are tools they used

c)

They tell us about their way of life

10.

Why did the early explorers that settled in Kentucky settle where they did?

a)

They settled near a river to have a water source

b)

They settled on good farming land

c)

They settled where there were animals to hunt