Men Who Built America: Frontiersmen Name: ____________________

Episode 1: Into the Wilderness

1. Why is Daniel Boone on the run in the beginning of the episode?  Where is he?

daniel boone was running for his life from the tribe he once lived with in kentucky

2. What is the “allure of the frontier?”

3. What is a buck? a male deer

4. What lies beyond the Appalachian Mountains?

5. What does Henderson recruit Boone to do?

6. What is the Wilderness Road?  How many pioneers follow it?

7. Why did the settlers have to live in a fortified settlement?

8. What is the name of the fort Boone constructs?

9. Who is Black Fish?  What does he do to Boone’s settlement?

10. Why is Jemima Boone SO AWESOME?!

11. Following Daniel Boone capturing his daughter back, what document is signed in

Philadelphia?

12. What is the impact of the Revolution on Boonesborough?  Who do the British ally with?

13. What is the gauntlet? What is Boone’s connection to it?

14. What happens at Fort Detroit?

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Episode 2: Never Surrender

1. Who is Tecumseh? a powerful shawnee chief

2. Where do the Shawnee live? ohio valley, wv, v

3. Why does the government need to sell lands in the west?

4. Who famous explorer will be a part of Harrison's troops?

5. What was the army's objective in the west?

6. What is the significance of the Battle of Fallen Timbers?

7. What did the Treaty of Greenville do?

8. Who does Jefferson buy Louisiana from?  Why is it the greatest real estate deal ever?

9. How do Lewis and Clark first encounter each other?

10. How many pounds of gear did their expedition begin with?

11. What does the historian mean when she says that Sacagawea was an ambassador for

Lewis and Clark?

12. How many new plants and animals are recorded by the expedition?

13. What is the Shoshone miracle?

14. What disease hits Tecumseh's tribe?

15. What is pan-Indianism?

16. What challenges do Lewis and Clark face on their trek through the Rockies?

17. Why do the British feel threatened by Lewis and Clark?

18. What does Tecumseh do to Britain’s offer?

19. What does Tecumseh create in 1808?

20. What does Harrison do to Prophetstown when Tecumseh is away?

21. What does the Battle of Tippecanoe do for Harrison? (makes him a national hero)

22. Why was Fort Detroit so important?

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Episode 3: Live Free or Die

1. How many tribes did Tecumseh merge?  2 dozen

2. What future president was Tecumseh’s main adversary? harrison

3. What future president was leader of the Tennessee militia that marched south to take on

the Red Stick faction?  addrew jackson

4. What battle (a U.S. victory) was Tecumseh killed in? 

5. What is the name of the new army recruit who joins Andrew Jackson in the search for
the creek Indians?

6. How many black bears did Crockett claim to kill? 

7. How long does it take Crockett to track down the Creek tribe? 

8. What happened at Tallahatchie? 

9. What does Crockett try to do after battle?

10. What do the British do to our capital? 

11. What major port city do the British hope to gain? 

12. What’s in Jackson’s way of getting to New Orleans? 

13. By how much were the Americans outnumbered by at NO? 

14. Hos many men does Jackson have to protect New Orleans?

15. What was the Treaty that ended the War of 1812? 

16. What happens to the frontier Crockett once knew? 

17. Who does Jackson run against for president? 

18. What was Jackson’s policy towards Native Americans? 

19. How many Native Americans were forced to Oklahoma?

20. What was the Trail of Tears? 

21. What helped revitalize Crockett?

22. Where does Crockett go to start over? 

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 Episode 4: Empire of Liberty

1. At the battle of the Alamo. Texans are outnumbered __ to 1.

2. How many minutes did it take for the Alamo to fall to Mexico?

3. Who was the leader of the army of Texas, who called upon Texans to remember the

Alamo?

4. In a month’s time, Houston's army swelled to how many men?

5. In just 18 minutes, the battle of San Jacinto is over. ____ Mexicans die while only ____
Texans die.

6. In 1842, _______ was sent to map a route to Oregon, in an effort to encourage

settlement in the territory.

7. What Kentucky frontiersman helped guide Fremont in his journey.

8. Over how many months did Fremont and Carson lead a team through the western

frontier?

9. In the path known today as the Oregon Trail, about how many Americans used this route
to travel west?

10. In an effort to compare him to his mentor Andrew Jackson, the nickname young hickory
is given to what president?

11. Filled with vast resources, California was desired by America for what other reason?

12. In an official mapmaking expedition, James K. Polk send Fremont and Caron to
California to unofficially start what?

13. After a border dispute on the Texas Mexico border. How many American soldier die?

14. After the bear flag revolt, Fremont and Carson had conquered the California coast in__

months.

15. Over 100 days how far did Carson have to travel to get a message to Washington about
California?

16. Prior to making it to Washington, Carson is asked to return to _______with Carney to

guide the army of the West.

17. Despite traveling by foot, how long did it take Carson to get to San Diego to call for help.

18. Fremont becomes first senator of California and Carson fights in the _____war.
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19. The western land is scarcely populated but the discovery of ____ in 1848 changes

everything.

20. In 1850 California becomes the ___st state.