American History: Ch. 7 Lessons 1-2

The idea that God had given the entire North American continent to Americans to settle was called

• the Western Migration
• Manifest Destiny.
• Religious Tolerance.
• the Monroe Doctrine.

What were squatters?

• Native American people who helped Western settlers
• cowboys who were looking for work
• people who stole from frontier towns
• people who settled on land they did not own

The Preemption Act of 1830 gave what benefit to squatters?

• freedom from taxes for a particular number of years
• the ability to negotiate treaties with Native American groups
• the right to buy land at the government's minimum price
• the ability to contest real estate developers' holdings

What invention by John Deere allowed farmers to break up Midwestern sod?

• a chemical soil-loosener
• a steel-bladed plow
• a wooden plow
• a steam plow

What did the horse-drawn McCormick reaper enable Midwestern farmers to do?

• prevent pests from infiltrating the crop
• plant more seeds in a shorter time period
• harvest more grain with less effort
• plow the soil with ease

Emigrants who made the journey westward in wagon trains were called

• overlanders.
• mountain men.
• trail blazers.
• westward wagoneers

How did Western Native Americans initially help settlers?

• by offering to let settlers stay in Native American villages for long periods
• by teaching the settlers how to hunt buffalo herds
• by giving the settlers their traditional lands to settle
• by offering water, trade, and information about the land

As overland traffic across the Great Plains increased, what concern did Native Americans begin to have?

• that the settlers would disrupt the migrating buffalo herds
• that the settlers were stealing supplies from Native American villages
• that settlers were spreading diseases to Native Americans
• that wagon trains were trampling brush and crops used by Native Americans

In the Treaty of Fort Laramie in 1851, the U.S. government offered which of the following to Native Americans to ensure the safe passage of settlers across the Great Plains?

• supplies and horses
• government reservations
• a lessening of wagon trains
• land and money

What large group migrated west to what is now Utah in search of religious freedom?

• Puritans
• Roman Catholics
• Mormons
• Methodists