Vocabulary
Difficult situations that cause discomfort or suffering
What is distress?
Objects or structures on land that are easy to recognize on a trip. Turn right at the red barn. This is a ___________.
What is landmark?
The families that traveled in covered wagons to Oregon were on the ________
What is Oregon Trail?
I created a written language for my people.
Who is Sequoyah?
This was built better by Robert Fulton.
What is a steamboat?
The people who first settled in new areas of the frontier.
What are pioneers?
This is the word for people talking or sending messages to each other.
What is communicate?
Families traveled in these
What are covered wagons?
The tribe that had to relocate on the Trail of Tears.
Who are the Cherokee?
Mail service was delivered by ___________ for 18 months.
What is The Pony Express?
Move to a new place and make it your home. We _______ in the Oregon Territory.
What is settled?
An area or region of land. The pioneers traveled to the Oregon __________.
What is territory?
Many hardships happened along the trail some of these might be______________. Name at least two.
What is broken wheel? What is bad weather? What is steep mountains? What is sickness?
The Cherokee people lived in these states.
The Carolinas and Georgia
The railroad system that went across our land.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
This is the way we get from one place to another. The GPS told us the ______ we should take.
What is route?
Different ways of travel
What is Transportation?
The reason why early pioneer families moved west.
This was found on Cherokee land in Georgia.
What is gold?
The nickname of a steam engine that pulls train cars.
What is Iron Horse?
This is a waterway used to move things from place to place using flatboats.
What are canals?
A group of covered wagons traveling together.
What is a wagon train?
The reason pioneer families usually walked beside the covered wagon.
What is It was filled with all of their belongings?
The name of Sequoyah's daughter.
What is Ayoka?
The type of boat on the Erie Canal.
What are flatboats?