WorksheetsEarly Kansas History
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 6mins
This explorer classified KS as a desert, so the gov relocated several tribes there.
Zebulon Pike
Francisco Coronado
William Lewis
Meriweather Clark
The name for the land set aside by the government for early native tribes
Nebraska Territory
Indian Removal Act
Reservations
Louisiana Territory
The idea settlers had that it was their fate to explore and settle North America
Westward Expansion
Manifest Destiny
Oregon Trail
The gold rush
The forced relocation of tribes, mainly Cherokee, which resulted in many deaths
Indian Removal Act
The Long March
Trail of Tears
Reservations
One effect of the Indian Removal Act was
Tribes separated
Loss of culture
Illness and disease, and subsequently deaths
Children sent to boarding schools
The president who urged congress to pass the Indian Removal Act to "solve the Indian problem"
Thomas Jefferson
George Washington
Francisco Coronado
Andrew Jackson
Mission schools were established to:
Help traders move supplies from ships
Convert native children to Christianity and teach job skills
Teach people how to become missionaries
Teach natives how to build their own schools
What is the relative location of Lawrence?
Next to Missouri
West of Kansas City
Lies along the Kansas River
East of Topeka
The Santa Fe Trail
Was an important trade route
Helped eastern natives return to their homeland
Helped families relocate West
Allowed explorers to travel west by boat
Explorer who came to Kansas looking for gold and riches but found the Wichita tribe instead
Lewis and Clark
Francisco Coronado
Stephen Long
Zebulon Pike
The route many settlers took to settle west
Santa Fe Trail
Oregon-California Trail
Trail of Tears
Interstate 70
Why was the KS area a good place to put reservations, according to the government?
There was abundant farmland
The people here were more welcoming to Native Americans
They thought there was not very good land here
There were a lot of buffalo
