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TEST ALERT
Chapter 12
Test Date: _____________________
This is the study guide for the chapter 12 social studies test. Use this study guide to prepare for the
test at home. Two extra credit points will be awarded if the completed study guide, with parent
signature, is turned in on the day of the test.
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. From where did most immigrants to the United States come during the late 1700s and early 1800s?
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2. Which physical barrier did settlers cross by using the Cumberland Gap?
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3. Which method of transportation did the earliest settlers from the East use to reach the Ohio River valley
in the West?
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4. What does the word canal mean?
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5. What was a state formed from the Northwest Territory?
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6. When did Francis Scott Key write the words to “The Star-Spangled Banner”?
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7. Which American Indian leader argued for Cherokee rights before the Supreme Court in Washington,
D.C.?
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8. Which leader openly opposed the Indian Removal Act?
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SEQUENCING
Order the two events.
9. _______
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10. _______
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11. _______
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12. _______
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13. _______
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Daniel Boone crosses the Cumberland Gap.
Kentucky becomes a state.
Settlers use steamboats for transportation.
Settlers use flatboats for transportation.
The United States purchases Louisiana from France.
Spain agrees to give Florida to the United States.
Zebulon Pike begins his expedition to the Southwest.
Lewis and Clark begin their expedition to the West.
Andrew Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act.
Tecumseh tries to unite Indian nations against the United States.
SHORT ANSWER
Answers must be in complete sentences.
14. Why did waves of immigrants move to the United States during the late 1700s and early 1800s?
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15. How did early pioneers west of the Appalachian Mountains use natural resources?
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16. How did the Louisiana Purchase affect the United States?
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17. What were the effects of the Indian Removal Act?
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“The object of your mission is to explore the Missouri River…(to find) the most direct
and practicable water communication (route) across the continent…”
---President Thomas Jefferson,
letter to Captain Meriwether Lewis,
June 20, 1803
18. Did Lewis and Clark succeed in finding a direct water route across North America? Why or why not?
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TEST ALERT
Chapter 12
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. From where did most immigrants to the United States come during the late 1700s and early 1800s?
Europe
2. Which physical barrier did settlers cross by using the Cumberland Gap?
The Appalachian Mountains
3. Which method of transportation did the earliest settlers from the East use to reach the Ohio River valley
in the West?
Overland wagons
4. What does the word canal mean?
A waterway dug across the land
5. What was a state formed from the Northwest Territory?
Ohio
6. When did Francis Scott Key write the words to “The Star-Spangled Banner”?
After a battle of the War of 1812
7. Which American Indian leader argued for Cherokee rights before the Supreme Court in Washington,
D.C.?
Chief John Ross
8. Which leader openly opposed the Indian Removal Act?
John Marshall
SEQUENCING
Order the two events.
9. ___1___
___2___
10. ___2___
___1___
11. ___1___
___2___
12. ___2___
___1___
13. ___2___
___1___
Daniel Boone crosses the Cumberland Gap.
Kentucky becomes a state.
Settlers use steamboats for transportation.
Settlers use flatboats for transportation.
The United States purchases Louisiana from France.
Spain agrees to give Florida to the United States.
Zebulon Pike begins his expedition to the Southwest.
Lewis and Clark begin their expedition to the West.
Andrew Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act.
Tecumseh tries to unite Indian nations against the United States.
SHORT ANSWER
Answers must be in complete sentences.
14. Why did waves of immigrants move to the United States during the late 1700s and early 1800s?
To escape hardships in their homelands, for economic incentives, for the chance to buy their own
land and open their own businesses, for religious and political freedom
15. How did early pioneers west of the Appalachian Mountains use natural resources?
They used wood from the trees to build log cabins, to burn in their fireplaces, and to make tools.
They used the land to grow food and graze their animals. They used rivers and streams for
transportation and for their water needs.
16. How did the Louisiana Purchase affect the United States?
It doubled the size of the country. It changed the western border of the nation to the Rocky
Mountains. It led Americans to explore more of North America. It eventually added new states.
17. What were the effects of the Indian Removal Act?
It broke many treaties between American Indians and the United States. The act allowed the
United States government to force all American Indians east of the Mississippi River to give up
their lands and move west tot the Indian Territory in what is now Oklahoma.
18. Did Lewis and Clark succeed in finding a direct water route across North America? Why or why not?
No, because the Rocky Mountains separated the flow of rivers across the continent. Lewis and
Clark had to cross the mountains by foot.