Chapter 20 Practice

How did long hunters affect settlement of the frontier?

• More people wanted to settle their after the long hunters told about the good land

• Less people wanted to settle after the long hunters told of the American Indians owning the land

• Less people wanted to settle after the long hunters told about the dangers of the mountains

• More people wanted to settle the frontier after the long hunters hunted all the animals in the East

Why did people want to move to the frontier?

• There were lots of easy ways to travel there

• There were a lot of European-Americans there

• There was a lot of cheap land avalaible there

• There was a law against land speculators there

Who built a cabin on the Watauga River?

• William Bean

• Daniel Boone

Who established a town on the western side of the Appalachian Mountains?

• Daniel Boone

• William Bean

Who built the Wilderness Road

• William Bean

• Daniel Boone

Who was one of the first permanent settlers in what is now Tennessee?

• William Bean

• Daniel Boone

Which reason explains why many settlers used a Conestoga wagon to move west?

• The settlers needed some way to float down rivers

• The wagons could be expanded to be larger if the settlers needed more room

• The settlers only had a few belongings to take with them

• The wagons were made to handle rugged trails in the mountains

What were settlers on the frontier called?

• waggoneers

• pioneers

• fur traders

• land speculators

How did settlers usually get clothes on the frontier?

• They ordered them from a catalog

• They made them out of things like cotton and animal skins

• they had their relatives ship them clothes from back East

• They bought them at a store

What type of housing did MOST settlers use?

• They lived in teepees like some American Indians did

• They cleared land and built their own cabins

• They build longhouses for many families to live in

• They used old houses that American Indians had left behind