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Westward Expansion.
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Daniel Boone was a pioneer. Which of the following describes the term pioneer?
a) A pioneer is an early settler of an area.
b) A pioneer is someone who collects pinecones.
c) A pioneer is someone who fears pinecones.
d) A pioneer is someone who does not settle an area.
Daniel Boone is famous for wearing a certain type of hat. What type of hat did he wear?
a) Bear skin hat.
b) Deer skin hat.
c) Beaver fur hat.
d) Coonskin hat.
Which of the following was an effect of the Wilderness Road being built?
a) Settlers remained on the east coast between the Appalachians and the Atlantic Ocean.
b) Thousands of settlers expanded westward into Ohio. As a result, Ohio became the 15th state. The 1st state west of Mississippi
c) Thousands of settlers came to KY. As a result, KY became the 15th state. The 1st state west of the Appalachians.
d) America expand south toward the Gulf of Mexico.
Describe scarcity.
a) Scarcity means extremely plentiful supply.
b) Scarcity means an insufficiency or shortage of supply.
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Daniel Boone and his crew modified the Cumberland Gap. The term modified means which of the following?
a) To change or alter.
b) To leave unchanged or unaltered.
c) To gaze upon and take in the scenery.
d) To travel through with easy.
What landform acted as a barrier and kept settlers from moving west into the area known as Kentucky?
a) Rocky Mountains
b) Appalachian Mountains
c) Mount McKinley
d) Mount Whitney
Which of the following is an example of a way people modified the physical environment to meet their needs?
a) Using all parts of the buffalo.
b) Building their homes out of adobe around them.
c) Widening the Cumberland Gap to accommodate wagon traffic.
d) Learning to swim in the rivers.
Which of the following explains how scarcity required people to make choices?
a) There was an abundance of trees and many settlers had to make choices of how to use the wood and other available resources.
b) There was a shortage of buffalo, so the Native Americans couldn’t survive.
c) There was a shortage of land so many settlers decided to leave home and move west.
d) There was a scarcity of water so people couldn’t farm.
Which of the following statements best describes Manifest Destiny?
a) All American citizens should have the right to vote.
b) All American women should have the right to own property.
c) The U.S. should stretch from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.
d) All Native Americans should live in land west of the Mississippi River.
Where was Daniel Boone born?
a) Pennsylvania
b) Virginia
c) Kentucky
d) Massachusetts
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