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Unit 3 Chapter 2-Native Americans and the Settlement of the West

Total questions: 21

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What Territory was purchased a year after Texas?

a)

Oregon Territory

b)

Louisiana Purchase

c)

Florida

d)

Alaska

2.

Where the did Oregon Trail begin?

a)

New Orleans

b)

Independence

c)

New York

d)

Florida

3.

What is the name of this invention?

a)

Steamboat

b)

Flatboat

c)

Steam Engine

d)

Keelboat

4.

Why did American Settlers move to Oregon?

a)

Oil

b)

Gold

c)

Rich Farmland

d)

Coal

5.

Why did American Settlers move to California?

a)

To live in a new city

b)

To swim in the Pacific Ocean

c)

To live on rich farmland

d)

To look for gold.

6.

What year was all the land west of the Rocky Mountains Purchased?

a)

Before 1845

b)

After 1845

c)

1803

d)

1793

7.

What was Manifest Destiny?

a)

Your belief in moving west

b)

A map

c)

God given right that Americans should expand west spreading liberty.

d)

Free land

8.

Which best describes the Homestead Act?

a)

Transcontinental Railroad

b)

Free land given to American settlers to move west to farm for 5 years.

c)

God given right that Americans should expand west.

d)

Rich farmland

9.

What is the steamboat powered by?

a)

Motor

b)

Steam engine

c)

Paddles

d)

Electricity

10.

What was the name of the journey that the Cherokee Indians

had to take when forced from their land?

a)

Trail of Tears

b)

Journey Home

c)

Oregon Trail

d)

Home Bound

11.

Who gave free land or sold cheap land to American settlers moving west?

Select 2 of the correct answers

a)

Railroad companies

b)

Native Americans

c)

U.S. Government

d)

French

e)

Spain

12.

Who is this Native American?

a)

George Washington

b)

Chief Sitting Bull

c)

Sacagawea

d)

Thomas Jefferson

13.

What was Chief Sitting Bull mostly known for?

Select two of the correct answers.

a)

Creating the Oregon Trail

b)

Resisting westward expansion and standing up for his tribe.

c)

Finding Gold

d)

Led Sioux Warriors against the U.S. government

14.

What battle did the Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne Tribes

defeat the U.S. army?

a)

Battle of Rosebud

b)

Little Bighorn

c)

Wounded Knee

d)

American Revolution

15.

What is the land called that the Native Americans

were forced to live on?

a)

Teepees

b)

Mining Camps

c)

Reservations

d)

Home

16.

What is a flat grassland called?

a)

Emigrate

b)

Prairie

c)

Steamboat

d)

Homestead

17.

What did Natives Americans have the right to do on reservations?

a)

the right to move to France

b)

the right to listen to the americans

c)

the right to take back their land

d)

the right to govern themselves

18.

What is a home and land surrounding it called?

a)

Homestead

b)

Prairie

c)

Transcontinental

d)

Steamboat

19.

What is crossing the entire continent called?

a)

Steamboat

b)

Transcontinental

c)

Emigrate

d)

Homestead

20.

What does it mean to leave one place and settle

permanently in another?

a)

Steamboat

b)

Transcontinental

c)

Emigrate

d)

Homestead

21.

What is a boat powered by a steam engine?

a)

Steamboat

b)

Transcontinental

c)

Homestead

d)

Prairie