American Progress

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Social Studies, History

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8th Grade

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Easy

Hannah Lumpkins

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24 Slides • 11 Questions

Multiple Choice

What was the term for the idea that expansion was the right of the US?

Manifest Destiny

Righteous Growth

Sovereign Development

Due Process

Multiple Choice

Which mountains did the Settlers have to cross?

Rocky Mountains

Appalachian Mountains

Andes Mountains

Alps

Multiple Choice

What was the MAIN reason the government wanted Native Americans on reservations

to keep them from starving

to take their land

to preserve the remaining buffalo

to teach them new skills

Multiple Choice

After the Revolutionary War, many settlers moved to the western frontier and beyond. Which term best describes this group of people?

merchants

pioneers

patroons

soldiers

Multiple Choice

Allowed farmers to break up dry tough soil of the Great Plains.

sod house

windmill

steel plow

barbed wire

Multiple Choice

Allowed farmers to keep cattle from nearby ranches off their fields and away from their crops.

steel plow

barbed wire

windmill

sod house

Multiple Choice

On water, these inventions helped move people and products up and down rivers --

Steamboat

Locomotive

Kayak

Canoe

Multiple Choice

Which types of waterways provided faster transportation to the west in the 1800's?

Canals and rivers

Oceans and seas

Lakes and ponds

Streams and creeks

Multiple Choice

What type of transportation made it faster and easier to get out West during the 1800s?

Steam locomotive

Canoe

Airplane

Car

Multiple Choice

TRUE or FALSE: The journey was long, but easy for the pioneers moving West.

True

False

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is NOT a reason people moved West?

Gold

Land ownership

Farming opportunities

Freedom

A stress-free, easy life

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