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Assignment:
America: The Story of Us Episode 3: Westward Early Western Explorers:
1. What formed the Cumberland Gap?
2. Who said that the colonists could not move west?
3. Why did Boone hate the Shawnee?
4. To what other expedition did the filmmakers compare Lewis and Clark?
5. How did Lewis & Clark survive after they ran out of food? Fur Trappers: 11:07 - 16:26
6. Why do the trappers work in America instead of Europe?
7. What happened to Jedediah Smith? Did he survive? How?
8. What follows Jedediah Smith's pathways today? Pioneers:
9. What were the financial circumstances of most pioneers? (rich, poor, middle-class)
10. Why did the Donner Party split from the main trail?
11. Besides people, what kinds of things did the Donner Party eat?
The Gold Rush:
12. How long after the Mexican-American War did they discover gold in California?
13. Give at least one example of a large price increase.
14. What was wrong with the graves?
Frontier Life:
15. What was the cause of "milk sickness?"
16. Who was the young man chopping wood?
17. What was Jackson's new American Indian policy?
18. How did people float their goods down the Mississippi?
19. Abraham Lincoln encounters a new invention on the Mississippi - what was it?
20. What was wrong with the first steamboats?