Transcript Fourth Grade SS week fivex - JSES-PASS

SOCIAL STUDIES
Fourth Grade
Week Five
• Which pioneer crossed
the Appalachian Mountains
through the Cumberland Gap
and helped clear the
Wilderness Road?
•Daniel Boone
•Who did Thomas
Jefferson send to the
Louisiana Territory to
explore and make maps
of the area?
•Lewis and Clark
• Who explored the upper
regions of the Mississippi River
before heading to
the southwest (in Spanish
territory) to explore?
•Zebulon Pike
•How did the Lewis
and Clark Expedition
help future pioneers?
• They brought back maps
showing the major rivers,
mountains, and important
passes through the
Rocky Mountains.
•Why was it easier to
explore the Louisiana
Purchase than
Kentucky?
• There were many rivers
Lewis and Clark could
travel on, but Daniel Boone
had to cross the
Appalachian Mountains.
•What were the four
main reasons why
pioneers moved
west?
• 1. Economic
opportunities
(trading and farming)
• 2. Land was inexpensive
• 3. The California Gold Rush
• 4. Religious freedom
• What is the term that
means the United States
was bound to spread from
the Atlantic to the Pacific?
•“Manifest Destiny”
•What six territories
were added to the
United States
in the 1800’s?
• Louisiana Territory, Florida,
Texas, Northwest Territory
(Oregon), California, and
New Mexico
•What territory did
Thomas Jefferson buy
from France which
greatly increased the
size of the U.S.?
•The Louisiana
Territory
•What land was gained
from the Northwest
Treaty which Britain
made with the U.S.?
•The Oregon
Territory
•What was the impact
of Westward Expansion
on Native Americans?
•As more settlers moved
west, they forced the
Native Americans
off their tribal lands.
• What was the law passed
in 1830 that forced Native
Americans to leave their
lands and move onto
reservations?
•The Indian Removal
Act of 1830
•What wars were fought
in Florida because the
Native Americans there
refused to surrender
their land?
•The Seminole
Wars
•What trail was began
Independence,
Missouri and ended in
Mexico?
•The Santa Fe
Trail
• What 2,000 mile trail
traveled between
Independence, Missouri
and the northwest corner
of Oregon?
•The Oregon Trail
•How were the Santa
Fe and Oregon Trails
used differently?
• The Oregon Trail was mostly
used by families, but the Santa
Fe trail was used to carry
merchandise
out west.
•What were some of the
hardships encountered
by pioneers on their
trips to the west?
•Broken axels, bad
weather, lack of food,
sickness, bandits,
and Native Americans
•What often determined
the success or failure of
a trip west?
•Whether the travelers
worked together in
cooperation, or whether
they argued and had
lots of conflicts
•What were some of
the obstacles
pioneers faced on
their trips west?
•Crossing
mountains and
rivers
•What was life like at
the end of the
journey west?
• It was hard because houses
had to be built and lands
cleared. There was still bad
weather, sickness and
bandits.
•How were the Chinese
treated in California
during the Gold Rush of
1849?
• At first, they were welcome as long
as there was plenty of jobs and gold,
and did chores for the miners such
as laundry and cooking. When jobs
and gold became scarce, the miners
discriminated against the Chinese.
•What was the main
issue that had to be
decided when territories
wanted to become
states?
•Whether they would
be a “slave state” or a
“free state”
•What did the
Northwest Ordinance
of 1787 say about
slavery?
•What did the
Northwest Ordinance
of 1787 say about
slavery?
•When territories in the
Great Lakes region
applied for statehood,
they could not be slave
states.
•What was the
Missouri
Compromise?
• It allowed Missouri to be
admitted to the US as a “slave
state” and Maine to be admitted
as a “free state”, keeping a
balance between the number of
“slave and free states”.
•What was the
Compromise of
1850?
• It allowed California to be admitted
as a “free state”, outlawed the slave
trade in Washington D.C., and stated
that the rest of the Mexican Cession
Territory would vote on whether
they would be “free” or “slave
states”.
•What was the
Kansas-Nebraska
Act?
• It stated that people in these territories
could vote on whether to be “slave” or
“free states”. This caused many
abolitionists and slave owners to move
to the area to fight for their causes. So
much fighting over slavery began that
the area was known as “Bleeding
Kansas”