Westward Expansion

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Westward Expansion

• Jan Barrett
• Reading Specialist
• Crestview Elementary
• March 26, 2002

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Review Questions for Westward Expansion Unit

• Answer the following questions about the
  westward expansion on a piece of paper. Check
  your answers (1-9) on the last slide. Please hand
  in essay on question 10.

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Gold Rush
1. Who were the forty-niners?
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Thomas Jefferson

• 2.
• How did Thomas Jefferson help double the size
  of the United States?

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Cumberland Gap

• 3.
• How was the Cumberland Gap important to Daniel
  Boone and the Wilderness Road?

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Physical Features

• 4.
• What physical features first attracted pioneers
  to the Oregon country?

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Trail of Tears

• 5.
• Where did the
• Trail of Tears
• lead to?

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Erie Canal

• 6.
• Why was the Erie Canal Built?

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Lewis and Clark

• 7.
• What was the purpose of the Lewis and Clark
• expedition?

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Mass Production

• 8.
• What is mass production? Who first put this idea
  for producing goods into practice?

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Indian Removal Act

• 9.
• What was the Result of the Indian Removal Act of
  1830?

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California or Bust

• 10.
• If you had been alive in 1849, would you have
  gone to California in search of gold? Explain
  your answer.

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Answers to Questions

1. People went to California in 1849 and looked for
   gold.
2. By buying the territory known as the Louisiana
   Purchase.
3. It was the route Daniel Boone traveled through
   the mountains into Kentucky that was later
   cleared to make the Wilderness Road.
4. Green valleys, wooded hills, and fertile soil
5. Fort Gibson
6. To transport goods between eastern New York and
   cities in the West.
7. To learn about the land acquired in the Louisiana
   Purchase
8. Mass production is a way to produce large numbers
   of goods at one time using interchangeable parts.
   It was first put into practice by Eli Whitney.
9. All American Indians east of the Mississippi were
   forced to move West.
10. Hand in your Essay.