Settling the West — Quiz

Question 1

In the late 1700s, the Cumberland Gap made it easier for settlers to

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cross the Appalachian Mountains.

Question 2

Why was there so little settlement on the Great Plains in the early 1800s?

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Conditions were not suitable for the kind of farming done at that time.

Question 3

Who led troops to victory at the Battle of Tippecanoe in Indiana Territory?

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William Henry Harrison

Question 4

During the late 1700s, the Wilderness Road led to the settlement of

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Kentucky.

Question 5

Who helped establish the Wilderness Road in the late 1700s?

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Daniel Boone

Question 6

What was the cause of most conflicts between US troops and Indigenous people in the 1800s?

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American settlement on Indigenous lands

Question 7

Indigenous resistance in the Ohio River Valley ended with

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the Treaty of Greenville.

Question 8

In 1795, the Treaty of Greenville

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gave much of present-day Ohio to the United States.

Question 9

How did Indigenous people react to American settlers in the late 1700s and early 1800s?

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American settlers and Indigenous people often clashed as settlement spread across the West during that era.

Question 10

Who was Tecumseh?

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a Shawnee leader who led Indigenous resistance to US settlement in the Ohio River Valley

Settling the West — Quiz Answers