Unit 8
A Nation Moves West
Lessons 1-6
Vocabulary
1. a boat that moves by the power of a steam engine
A. immigrant
2. a person who comes to a country from another
country
B. terrain
3. a route across land
4. the physical characteristics of an area of land
5. a human-made waterway
6. a boat with a flat bottom for transporting heavy
loads on canals
7. plant life
C. overland
D. steamboat
E. canal
F. flatboat
G. vegetation
8.
having the same conditions and opportunities
as everyone else
A. topography
9.
good at finding solutions to problems
B. resourceful
10. the surface of a place or region
C. equality
11. to add or attach
D. annex
12. Frontiersman who led the early westward
movement and helped build the Wilderness
Road
13. Shoshone woman who helped Lewis and Clark
on their expedition
14. Explorer of the American West who helped lead
an expedition to the Pacific Ocean and back
15. Explorer of the American West who was chosen
by Thomas Jefferson to lead an expedition to
explore new lands gained in the Louisiana
Purchase.
16. An African American member of the Lewis and
Clark expedition
17. An army officer who explored the American
West, especially present-day Colorado and New
Mexico
18. Found South Pass, which helped settlers cross
the Rocky Mountains
A. Sacagawea
B. Daniel Boone
C. Meriwether Lewis
D. William Clark
E. York
F. Zebulon Pike
G. Robert Stuart
All of these are reasons many
Americans moved west in the 1800’s
except for…
A.
B.
C.
D.
poverty and disease
news spread about the incredible taste of
In-N-Out Burger
crowded cities in the East pushed people
to leave their homes
cheap land that was good for farming
pulled settlers West
Many European immigrants began arriving in
the United States. Where did they come from
and why?
GERMANY
BRITAIN
Escape political
problems
Jobs and religious
freedom
IRELAND
Escape the
famine
People transported heavy goods
on canals by
A.
B.
C.
D.
Aquaman
canoes
flatboats
trains
Which of these became a state in 1850?
(You better not get this one wrong!!!)
A.
B.
C.
D.
Oregon
Washington
Texas
California
Which of the following reasons made it
difficult to travel over western terrain?
A.
B.
C.
D.
crossing rivers and mountains
calm weather
getting permission to travel
crossing the candy cane forest
What did Lewis and Clark
write about?
governing
this new
territory
plans for
obtaining
more land
animals
they saw
and plants
the
American
Indians
used
the beauty
of this land
in poetry
One of Lewis and Clark’s goals was
to
B. to
C. to
D. to
A.
find the source of the Mississippi River
find a water route to the Pacific Ocean
attack American Indians
eliminate French Settlements
Settlers Moving West
Yes, dear.
The
economic
opportunities
and harbors
for shipping.
Instead I bought
some bubble gum!
Would someone
please remind
me again why
we are moving
west?
Bazooka, zooka,
bubblegum…
I’m
going to
find
mineral
wealth
Religious
Freedom!
Most deaths among pioneers along
the Oregon Trail were caused by
________.
illness
Most people on the overland trails reached
California and Oregon by
A.
B.
C.
D.
Many Mexicans who were living on U.S.
land that had belonged to Mexico
went to the Oregon Territory
B. stayed and fought
C. returned to Mexico
D. stayed and worked
A.
What states made up the Mexican
territories in the West and Southwest?
Utah
Arizona
Colorado
New
Mexico
In 1821, present-day
Texas was part of
___________.
Mexico
After the Texas Revolution, Texas…
became part of New Spain
B. became an independent republic
C. remained part of Mexico
D. lost the Alamo
A.
The result of the MexicanAmerican War was that
lost its land in
Mexico _____
the present-day
United States
_______________.
What transportation was available to
pioneers going west? How does it compare
to what you and your family use?
walked
horses
Pioneers __________
, rode _________
,
wagons and sometimes
used _________,
steamboats We walk, drive cars, fly in
____________.
transportation
airplanes for ____________.
What importance did rivers have
for the pioneers?
drinking
traveling
cooking
washing
How did the size of the United States
change after the Louisiana Purchase?
It DOUBLED!
It DOUBLED!
Why did President Jefferson send
Lewis and Clark on an expedition
through the Louisiana Territory?
Jefferson wanted
Lewis and Clark to:
• search for a water
route to the Pacific
Ocean
• study the areas
resources
• meet with the
American Indians
What did Zebulon Pike and John
Freemont do to help westward
expansion?
explored present-day
Colorado and New
Mexico
mapped areas of
Great Basin and
Pacific Coast
Zebulon Pike
John Freemont
What impact did the geography and
climate of the West have on the routes
and schedules of the pioneers?
Pioneers looked for ________
routes without many
mountains
rivers or ____________.
They left in the
_________
Spring to have good weather and
grass
_______.
Explain the Mexican land grant
system.
After gaining _____________,
independence many Mexican
settlers made their way north to search for
new ____________.
opportunities However, the Mexican
government wanted to send even more
___________
people north. To do this they gave some
people large areas of _____.
land Under this
system, land owners were given special
_______.
rights Many of these owners used their
cattle _________.
ranches
land grants as ________
What was the result of the MexicanAmerican War, and why was this so
important to the United States?
The result was that Mexico lost its _____
land in
present-day United States. This was important
because in the 1840’s, many Americans
believed that the United States should ______
control
Atlantic _________
Ocean
land from the _________
to the
Pacific Ocean. This was called “_________
Manifest
Destiny
________.”