Chapter 5 - Lesson 2 Review

The first people to live in the western states were the Spanish.

• True

• False

Missions were church-based communities for native peoples.

• True

• False

Reservations were especially suited (good) for farming

• True

• False

Early houses built on the Great Plains were made entirely of wood.

• True

• False

Of what materials did Native Americans of the Great Plains make their teepees ?

• clay and sand

• cotton or wool cloth

• bricks and glass

• animal hides and poles

What event led to the Lewis and Clark expedition?

• Manifest Destiny

• Oregon Trail

• Spanish-American War

• Louisiana Purchase

What did some people who disapproved of its purchase call the area of Alaska?

• Seward’s Folly

• Sherman’s Folly

• Seward’s Gold

• Folly Land

What provision of the Homestead Act encouraged people to move west of the Mississippi River?

• They were given gold.

• Their houses had to be made of wood.

• The land was "free."

• They only had to live on their farms for three years.

What term is used to describe a region just beyond or at the edge of a settled area?

• pueblo

• mission

• suburb

• frontier

Some Native American groups on the Plains were _____ so they could hunt herds of bison.

• pueblos

• nomadic

• settled

• established