US History - Chapter 12

Question 1

A boat used by settlers to go down the Ohio River. A long boat with a flat bottom.

Answer 1

Flat boat

Question 2

A pioneer who began the settlement of Kentucky; called “the pioneer of pioneers”

Answer 2

Daniel Boone

Question 3

The trail cleared by Daniel Boone in Kentucky

The pioneer settlement in Kentucky named for Daniel Boone.

Answer 3

Wilderness Road

Boonseborough

Question 4

A law that divided the Northwest Territory into townships and demanded that one section of land in each township be for a school.

Answer 4

Land Ordinance of 1785

Question 5

Law that guaranteed the freedom and democracy the original states enjoyed would also be in the Northwest Territory.

Answer 5

Northwest Ordinance of 1787

Question 6

The section of land purchased from Napoleon Bonaparte (France) by President Jefferson that doubled the size of the United States.

Answer 6

Louisiana Purchase

Question 7

The two young men who led the expedition to explore the Louisiana Purchase.

Answer 7

Lewis and Clark

Captain Meriwether Lewis and Captain William Clark

Question 8

The Indian woman who went with the Lewis and Clark expedition to translate into the Indian language

Answer 8

Sacagawea

Question 9

One of the best known circuit-riding preachers of the Second Great Awakening.

Answer 9

Peter Cartwright

Question 10

The president who purchased Florida from Spain.

Answer 10

President James Monroe

Question 11

The president who purchased the Louisiana territory for the United States.

Answer 11

President Thomas Jefferson

Question 12

This man wrote our national anthem.

What was the name of the national anthem?

In what battle did he write it?

During what war did he write it?

Answer 12

Francis Scott Key

Star-Spangled Banner

Fort McHenry

The War of 1812

Question 13

This section of land became a part of the United States after the War for Independence

Answer 13

Northwest Territory

Question 14

Which side won the war of 1812?

Answer 14

Neither side

Question 15

Which President purchased Florida from Spain?

Answer 15

President James Monroe

Question 16

Who was one of the most famous circuit riding preacher’s during the Second Great Awakening?

Answer 16

Peter Cartwright

Question 17

Which dictator try to take away the liberties of Texans?

Answer 17

Santa Anna

Question 18

How many men were killed defending the Alamo?

Answer 18

187

Question 19

Who led the Texans in the Battle of San Jacinto?

Answer 19

Sam Houston

Question 20

At what battle was Santa Anna captured and defeated?

Answer 20

The Battle of San Jacinto

Question 21

What did Texas claim to be her boundary with Mexico?

Answer 21

The Rio Grande

Question 22

Who was President during the Mexican War?

Answer 22

President James K. Polk

Question 23

How long did the Mexican War last?

Answer 23

Two years

Question 24

Why was the Gadsten purchase made?

Answer 24

So that a railroad could be built in the Southwest

Question 25

On whose ranch was gold found in California in 1848?

Answer 25

John Sutter

Question 26

Why were the man who went to California looking for gold called 49ers?

Answer 26

They came to California in 1849

Question 27

Why did people in gold mining towns decide to live in tents?

Answer 27

Lumber was too expensive

Question 28

What were deserted, empty towns in the West called?

Answer 28

Ghost towns

Question 29

From what territory where the state of Oregon, Washington, and Idaho formed?

Answer 29

The Oregon Territory or Oregon Country

Question 30

What missionary couple helped Indians and pioneers in Oregon?

Answer 30

The Whitmans

Question 31

Who wrote the first school books especially for American school children?

What was the name of his first school book?

Answer 31

Noah Webster

the “Blue-backed Speller”

Question 32

What man wrote a series of famous readers in the middle of the 19th century?

Answer 32

William H. McGuffey