Settlement in the American West

Mountain Men roamed the Oregon Country for a specific purpose. What was the primary activity that Mountain Men were doing in the Oregon Country?

• Removing Native American nations on behalf of the United States government.

• Trapping beaver to profit from the sale of valuable fur pelts.

• Searching for a Northwest Passage - a water route through the North American continent to the Pacific Ocean.

• Collecting specimens of new species of plants and animals for President Jefferson.

Mountain man that was attacked by a grizzly bear and had his ear sewn back on upside down.

• Jedediah Smith

• Peter Skene Ogden

• Joseph Walker

• Jim Beckwourth

Where did the Mountain men meet to trade their goods?

• They didn't

• In New York

• At shops in California

• Rendezvous

What was the trail that was established in 1830 to help people move west?

• Mormon Trail

• Oregon Trail

• Bozeman Trail

• Trail of Tears

What term describes the thought that Americans had the right to expand our influence from the Atlantic to the Pacific due to our advanced culture?

• Manifest Destiny
• Gilded Age
• Progressivism
• Reconstruction

What Act pushed Plains Indians from the east to the west of the Mississippi in order to clear land for settlement?

• The Homestead Act 1861

• The Dawes Act 1887

• Indian Removal Act 1830

• The Desert Land Act 1873

What led to settlers moving into the mountains of Colorado, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Arizona and South Dakota?

• mining

• ranching

• farming

Around what city was the original Western gold rush of 1848?

• San Francisco, California
• Pike's Peak, Colorado
• San Diego, California
• Sioux Falls, South Dakota

What was the name given to the settlers who rushed west when gold was found in Sutter's Creek?

• Sioux

• vaqueros

• Homesteaders

• 49ers

Who founded the Mormon movement after seeing a vision of an angel in 1820?

• Joseph Smith

• Brigham Young

• Jed Smith

• Buffalo Bill