Hisory lessons

Question 1

Sacajawea/Shoshoni Indians

Answer 1

She was a teenage Indian who helped navigate Lewis and Clark as they explored the Louisiana Purchase. This nomadic tribe gave horses to the expedition that was invaluable to the success of the journey to the Pacific Ocean.

Question 2

Missouri River

Answer 2

To start the expedition it was the river which Lewis and Clark and other men traveled up in flat bottomed river boats called pirogues

Question 3

Andrew Jackson

Answer 3

Our 7th president elected in 1829. Elected as a man of the frontier. He wrote Indian Removal Act. Nicknamed “Old Hickory.”

Question 4

Mormonism

Answer 4

A religion founded by Joseph Smith in 1820. After Smith’s death, followers followed Brigham Young to the Rocky Mountains as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS). The term Mormon comes from the Book of Mormon.

Question 5

Indian Removal Act

Answer 5

The 1830 law that authorized the president to move Eastern Indians to public lands west of the Mississippi.

Question 6

Relocate

Answer 6

To move to another location.

Question 7

Trail of Tears

Answer 7

The forced journey of the Cherokee Indians from their homes in Georgia to the lands in the West in 1838-1839.

Question 8

South Pass

Answer 8

A low lying area through the Rocky Mountains in that is now Wyoming. Many trails west used this pass to get through the Rocky Mtns. (i.e. Mormon and Oregon Trail)

Question 9

Oregon Country

Answer 9

The vast region of the Northwest surrounding the Columbia, Snake, and Fraser Rivers claimed by the British.

Question 10

Emigrant

Answer 10

A person who leaves one place for another.

Question 11

Oregon Trail

Answer 11

The most famous route to the Pacific Northwest from Independence, Missouri to the Columbia River.