America Story of US - Episode 3 - Westward Expansion

1. Where was the Cumberland Gap? How was it created?

2. What was the significance of Daniel Boone to westward expansion?

3. What native tribes did Boone and his men encounter in their journey west? How did they interact?

4. Remember the Louisiana Purchase/Lewis and Clark? REMEMBER!!

5. What western commodities (goods) became valuable as a result of American western expansion?

6. Who was Jed Smith? What was his impact on westward expansion?

7. What were the motives of the “Great Wagon Trail”? Who was involved?

8. What was the mortality rate of Americans moving west?

9. What was the fate of the Donner Party?

10. What were the causes of the Texas Revolution? Explain the significance of the Alamo.

11. What was the outcome of the Mexican-American War?

12. What was the migration rate to California due to the discovery of gold? How long did the “Gold Rush” last? How many struck gold?

13. What diseases were prevalent in the west? How did mortality compare to other parts of the country?

14. Explain Andrew Jackson’s Indian Removal Act. What tribes were involved? Describe the Trail of Tears. Where were natives relocated to? Why?

15. How did merchants use the Mississippi River for trade? How did the steamship revolutionize trade/travel/transportation?

The newly created nazi ghettos were built where? in traditionally jewish neighborhoods. in rural areas. in poor urban areas. in isolated areas to prevent knowledge of the ghettos. primarily in germany.

Question 1 (1 point) five score years ago, a great american, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the emancipation proclamation. this momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. it came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity. but one hundred years later, the negro still is not free. one hundred years later, the life of the negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. one hundred years later, the negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. one hundred years later, the negro is still languished in the corners of american society and finds himself an exile in his own land. and so we’ve come here today to dramatize a shameful condition. in the first paragraph of this passage, which literary technique does mlk use? question 1 options: a. this is an example of personification because it compares segregation to being in chains. b. this is an example of hyperbole because it gives it gives human characteristics to segregation. c. this is an example of allusion because it references the language used in the emancipation proclamation, which freed slaves in 1863, 100 years before this speech was presented. d. this is an example of onomatopoeia because he uses the words seared and withering to describe the injustices experienced by african americans.

Will have the greatest effect on human health. pollution in the a. troposphere b. stratosphere mesosphere d. thermosphere