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Pennsylvania
Illinois
Missouri
Indiana
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Ohio
Washington,
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Alabama
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Geography Skills
growing population in the West.
Score 1 point for each correct answer. Use the
map on the previous page to check shading and labeling.
11.Answers and opinions will vary. The Cherokee were removed to free up the land for white settlers.
1. There were 13 new states added from 1791 to
1838, for a total of 26.
Using Scores to Inform Instruction
2. Five new states—Louisiana, Indiana,
Mississippi, Illinois, and Alabama—were
admitted during the 1810s, the most of any decade.
3. Maine was the only state added to the Union in the early 1800s that is not west of
the Appalachians.
4. New York City was the nation’s capital when
Washington became president.
5. These two cities were among the places
attacked by the British in the War of 1812. The United States had a problem with Great Britain.
6. The Erie Canal connected Lake Erie and the
Hudson River.
7. Tennessee is the home state of Andrew
Jackson.
8. The Cherokee were forcibly moved west
along the Trail of Tears. It began around
northwestern Georgia and ended west of Arkansas.
Geography Skills A score of 6 out of 8 or better
indicates that students have acquired sufficient
geographic information to proceed with the unit.
Critical Thinking A score of 6 out of 9 or better
indicates that students are beginning to
understand the relationships between physical
geography and the different ways in which people live.
Modifying Instruction
ELL or Learners with Special Education Needs Consider focusing on map-reading questions
or limiting the number of “Critical Thinking”
questions.
Students with Weak Map or Critical Thinking Skills
Assign appropriate pages from the Social Studies
Skills Toolkit in the back of the Lesson Masters.
Critical Thinking
Questions may have more than one correct
answer. Score 1 to 3 points for each reasonable
answer, depending on the strength of students’
geographic reasoning. Possible answers are given here.
9. Possible answer: An event like the War of
1812, with the threats to the homeland that it
presented, might serve to unite Americans and
increase their sense of patriotism.
10.Jackson was the nation’s first president not
from an eastern state. His election might
not have succeeded without the support of a
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