Today we will be talking about the Cumberland Gap and watching a short documentary called, "America: The Story of Us". This episode focuses on Westward Expansion.America: The Story of Us (Westward)
Please answer the following questions (also on handout) while watching the movie:
1. The land west of the
Cumberland Gap is controlled by _____________, ______________, and __________.
2. ____________________ &
his men cut through the Cumberland Gap.
3. __________ of Boone's men die
settling Kentucky.
4. Land hunger becomes a
__________________, even for the government.
5. Jefferson bought the
Louisiana Territory from ______________________.
6. The Rockies are _______
separate mountain ranges.
7. Lewis & Clark discover
over ___________ species of wildlife.
8. The West's most valuable commodity
is _____________, nearly hunted to extinction in Europe.
9. Jed Smith is successful
because he works with _______________________________________.
10. The trails Smith made became
settler paths, wagon trains, and today it is __________________________.
11. Settlers can walk up to
________________ a day, for up to ______________ months straight.
12. Families save for _____
years to join the exodus.
13. A wagon & oxen cost a
minimum of ______________ in today's money.
14. ________________ Americans
will die on the journey west, __________ graves for every mile.
15. The settlers needed to clear
the mountain passes before ____________________________________, or the
consequences would be terrifying.
16. Donner found a shortcut that
would shave __________________ off the journey, a savings of __________.
17. Instead, the shortcut added
__________________.
18. The Donner Party is stranded
for ____________. It takes only ____________________ to eat all the food.
19. Christmas 1846 -- The Donner
party eat their first __________________.
20. TRUE OR FALSE: No one from
the Donner party survived.
21. The Mexican empire stretches
from ____________________ to Guatemala.
22. The Battle of the Alamo
showed America was willing to ______________________ to expand West.
23. In _________, gold is
discovered in a California river.
24. In 2 years, the population
of California goes from ________________ to 100,000.
25. Less than ________ out of
____________ got rich from the gold rush, except for the merchants.
26. Settler families of 10 or
more lived in ___________________, with a single room.
27. The forced relocation of
Native Americans was the policy of the US for over _______ years.
28. The Mississippi River
stretches _________ miles, stretching from Minnesota to ____________________.
29. TRUE OR FALSE: The
Mississippi River is the only way for the farmers in the West to sell their
produce.
30. Once down the river, the
flatboats are sold for ___________, and the farmers walk _________ miles home.
31. The new invention that
transforms the Mississippi, the Midwest, & America is the
___________________.
32. The new invention can travel
_______ miles a day, _____ times faster and can carry _____ times the cargo of
a raft.
33. The problem is that over 1/2
the early models _________________.
34. The steamboat makes the
____________ America's economic powerhouse.
35. Over ______ generations,
America grew from a _____ mile wide strip of colonies on the Eastern seaboard
to a continental powerhouse.
