West Review Game Part I Question Preview (ID: 61347)


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What trail broke off from the Oregon Trail and went west to California?
a) Oregon Trail
b) California Trail
c) Santa Fe Trail
d) Mormon Trail

What trail began in Missouri and passed through Kansas and New Mexico
a) Oregon Trail
b) California Trail
c) Santa Fe Trail
d) Mormon Trail

What period of time in the U.S. did people struggle to find jobs, earn money, and find food?
a) Gold Rush
b) Attack on Pearl Harbor
c) Great Depression
d)

What event caused the United States to enter World War II?
a) Attack on Pearl Harbor
b) Eruption of Mount St. Helen
c) Holocaust
d)

How did railroads change traveling to the West?
a) Railroads made it even slower than it was before.
b) Railroads made it faster and easier to move to the West.
c) There were a lot more train wrecks.
d)

What event caused many people to move to California in 1848 and 1849?
a) Great Depression
b) Manifest Destiny
c) Gold Rush
d)

What is the imaginary line that runs north and south along the highest point of land separating the waters flowing east and west?
a) Transcontinental Railroad
b) Rocky Mountains
c) Continental Divide
d)

What is the 1st mail delivery company to the West?
a) Continental Divide
b) Pony Express
c) Transcontinental Railroad
d)

What is land surrounded by water (ex. Hawaii)?
a) Columbia River
b) island
c) Great Basin
d)

What is the largest river in the Pacific Northwest that drains into the Pacific Ocean?
a) Columbia River
b) Great Salt Lake
c) Great Basin
d)

What trail began in Nauvo, Illinois and ended in Great Salt Lake, Utah?
a) Oregon Trail
b) California Trail
c) Santa Fe Trail
d) Mormon Trail

What is the hottest place in the U.S.?
a) Juneau, Alaska
b) Rocky Mountains
c) Death Valley
d)

What is a low-lying area of land, bowl shaped, and lies between the Rocky Mountains, the Sierra Nevada, and the Cascades?
a) Great Basin
b) Mount St. Helen
c) island
d)

What is the highest mountain in the U.S. and is located in Alaska?
a) Mount St. Helen
b) Mount Denali
c) Cascades
d)

What is the largest saltwater lake located in Utah?
a) Great Salt Lake
b) Columbia River
c) Pacific Ocean
d)

What transportation line started in the east and west and met at Promontory Summit, Utah?
a) Erie Canal
b) Transcontinental Railroad
c) Columbia River
d)

What landform borders the western side of the U.S.?
a) Pacific Ocean
b) Atlantic Ocean
c) Great Salt Lake
d)

What volcano last erupted in 1980?
a) Mount Denali
b) Appalachian Mountains
c) Mount St. Helen
d)

What is one of the tallest mountain ranges in North America that runs from Alaska into the U.S.?
a) Appalachian Mountains
b) Rocky Mountains
c) Cascade Mountains
d)

What trail began in Missouri and passed through Nebraska to the Oregon Territory?
a) Oregon Trail
b) California Trail
c) Santa Fe Trail
d) Mormon Trail

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