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What year did america declare independance?

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1776

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How many states were in the original united state?

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13

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How many people did a territory need to join the union?

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60,000

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What are the two main mountain ranges in the American West?

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The Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Nevada

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Which country did America defeat to win the south west in 1848?

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Mexico.

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Describe the terrain and climate of the Great Plains.

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Flat. Dry hot grasslands in summer, cold windy and snow covered in winter.

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What did many people refer to the plains as?

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The great American desert.

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What is “manifest destiny”?

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The American belief that it was God’s will that they inhabit the continent from east to west.

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9
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Define “pioneer” in American history.

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A person who travels to an area not yet settled with the intention of developing a new home.

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How did Mountain men encourage future travellers to go west?

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Told stories, developed trails, drew maps, had articles written about them etc.

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When was the economic crisis in the eastern states that pushed a lot of people west?

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1837+

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Give 3 reasons why people wanted to leave the eastern states.

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(Any 3 of the ones below)

immigration, overcrowding, land prices up, crime (cities), poor living conditions (cities), unemployment.

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Why was California a popular destination up to 1848? (Name 2 reasons)

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Any of the ones below …

nice climate, lots of space, cheap land, good agricultural land.

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Describe two methods of transport most pioneers used to get across the 3500 miles to California.

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Boats until Independence, Missouri then covered wagon pulled by oxen or horse across the plains.

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Name the four main geographical obstacles that made the journey difficult.

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Rocky Mountains, Nevada Desert, Salt Lake/Flats, Sierra Nevada Mountains

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16
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Whose shortcut did the Donner Party follow?

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Lansford Hastings

17
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Why did the Donner Party get stuck in the Mountains in 1846?

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Short cut took too long, got to the Mountains too late, snow.

18
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Name one way the Donner Party and other pioneers encouraged further development.

.

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Letters back to the east, stories covered in Dime novels, newspapers and journals.

19
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What year did Joseph Smith start the Church of Latter Day Saints the Mormons?

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1823

20
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Who was the angel Moroni?

A

The angel that visited Smith and told him to go find the story of the Mormons.

21
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What is the Book of Mormon based on?

A

Gold plates left by the first Israelites in America. Told the story of the Mormons.

22
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give four reasons why the Mormons were persecuted in the east.

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Any of the following …
Religious beliefs such as polygamy, economic success such as buying up land and setting up banks, blamed for 1837 economic crisis, anti-slavery, Joseph Smith wanting to become president, growing numbers.

23
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What does polygamy mean and why did the Mormons practise it?

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More than one wife, more women than men joined the Mormon religion in the 1840s.

24
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Why was Joseph smith murdered in 1845?

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Wanted to run for American president. Murdered by an Anti-Mormon mob.

25
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Who replaced Joseph Smith as leader of the Mormons and decided to take them out west?

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Brigham Young

26
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Give two reasons why Young chose the Salt Lake for the new Mormon settlement.

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Isolated and unsettled so that Mormons could practise their religion without persecution

27
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How did Young solve the issue of having a reliable trail to follow out west?

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Young sent a group of pioneers out first to make a clear trail to follow.

28
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How did the Mormons get their resources?

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Rest camps set up along the trail.

29
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How did the Mormons get 16,000 people out west safely?

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Split them into teams, strict time frames, winter camps.

30
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How was the salt lake land allocated?

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Planned community, land allocated based on need (e.g. size of family or job)

31
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What is the type of community called, where jobs and resources are shared and organised for all?

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Co-opertative

32
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What was Deseret?

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The state that Brigham Young wanted entered into the Union in the 1850s

33
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What was the Perpetual Emigrating Fund?

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All expenses paid journey for new recruits to the Mormon religion.

34
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When was Gold discovered in California?

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24th January 1848

35
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What nickname was given to the miners and why?

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49ers, because they all went out in 1849

36
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Name 5 different ethnic groups that went west for gold?

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Chinese, eastern Anglo Americans, Mexicans, Europeans, freed slaves (African Americans)

37
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In what year did California become a state as a result of the Gold Rush immigration?

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1850

38
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Give 5 different entrepreneurial jobs that developed as a result of the Gold Rush.

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prostitution, gambling, tool shops, b and bs, saloons (pub), bridge tolls, ferries, food, Levis jeans

39
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How did the Gold Rush change America? (Name 2 things)

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Took land from Native Americans, immigration and racial diversity, gold reserves made it an internationally wealthy country, California became a state,

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