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routes to the west
social studies test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The purchase of the Louisiana Territory by which president in 1803 led to the settlement of lands west of the Mississippi River? | President Jefferson |
| Zebulon Pike and which other two men explored the Lousisana Territory and other parts of the west? | Meriwether Lewis and William Clark |
| Although the government sent many explorers westward, the people who learned the most about the lands beyond the Mississippi River were whom? | traders and fur trappers |
| Beginning in what year did traders follow the Santa Fe Trail from from Independence, Missouri southwest to Santa, which at that time was in Mexican Territory? | 1821 |
| Traders took wagons filled with manufactured goods to Santa Fe and brought back what? | mules, furs, gold, and silver |
| The purchase of the Louisiana Territory by which president in 1803 led to the settlement of lands west of the Mississippi River? | Thomas Jefferson |
| The old Spanish Trail continued from Santa Fe to where? | Los Angeles |
| Zebulon Pike and which other two men explored the Lousisana Territory and other parts of the west? | Meriwether Lewis and Admiral Clark |
| Although the government sent many explorers westward, the people who learned the most about the lands beyond the Mississippi River were whom? | traders and fur trappers |
| Beginning in what year did traders follow the Santa Fe Trail from from Independence, Missouri southwest to Santa, which at that time was in Mexican Territory? | 1821 |
| Traders took wagons filled with manufactured goods to Santa Fe and brought back what? | mules, furs, gold, and silver |
| The old Spanish Trail continued from Santa Fe to where? | Los Angeles |
| Who roamed the Rocky Mountain region starting in the 1820's? | Mountain men or fur trappers |
| Two of the most famous mountain and "trail blazers" of the far west were Jed Smith and who else? | Jim Bridger |
| Who discovered the famous South Pass that was later used by wagon trains crossing the Rocky Mountains to Oregon and California? | Bridger and Smith |
| Settlers traveling west used the trails established by whom? | mountain men |
| Which five states were first formed west of the Mississippi? | Louisiana, Missouri, Arkansas, Texas, and Iowa |
| During the 1820's who led hundreds of American families into Texas, then owned by Mexico? | Stephen Austin |
| The Americans living in Texas gained their independence from Mexico during what? | the Texas Revolution of 1835-1836 |
| Who led the Texans to victory over Santa Ana and the Mexican army and the first president of the "Lone Star Republic"? | Sam Houston |
| Texas was called the Lone Star Republic until it became a state in what year? | 1845 |
| Trappers, traders, explorers, and missionaries told stories about rich farmlands where? | Oregon and California |
| The first wagon trains began the long journey over what two trails during the 1840's? | Oregon Trail and California Trail |
| What did the pioneers have to travel through to reach the West Coast? | Great Plains and the Rocky Mountains |
| In what season every year did the wagon trains form at Independence, Missouri? | spring |
| The wagon train of the Donner Party was trapped in what mountains by early October snowstorms, leaving only 48 people out of 87 alive? | the Sierra Nevadas |
| The Whitman's and other missionaries wrote letters back home describing the great forests, and rich farmland of where? | the Oregon Country |
| Where did Brigham Young and the Mormons, who had been persecuted in several eastern because of their religious beliefs, settle next to in 1847? | The Great Salt Lake in Utah |
| Where was gold discovered that led to a rush of forty-niners to California in 1849? | John Sutter's mill |
| Most people found no gold and instead worked at what trades when California became a state in 1850? | farmers, store owners, and craftsmen |
| The trails that led west stretched over dry, treeless plains and waterless deserts, crossed streams and rivers and wound through steep what? | mountain passes |
| Families lived in covered wagons during the 2000 mile trip from Independence, Missouri;what were they pulled by? | teams of oxen or mules |
| Wagon trains followed the Oregon Trail through the Great Plains, "The Great American Desert" and this, located in the Rocky Mountains. | the South Pass |
| After crossing the Rockies, pioneers bound for California followed the California Trail to this valley.. | The Sacramento Valley |
| The Oregon Trail continued west to this river and the Williamette Valley. | the Columbia River |
| Wagon trains made brief stops at these along the way to stock up on supplies and to make repairs. | forts |
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