People and Places
These settlers traveled west looking for land and opportunity.
Pioneers
The belief that Americans were meant to expand westward.
Manifest Destiny
The famous trail settlers traveled to reach the Pacific Northwest.
The Oregon Trail
This invention helped farmers cut through tough prairie soil.
Steel plow
The U.S. government forced many Native Americans onto these lands.
Reservations
This word means the edge of settled land.
This term means the formal giving up of territory.
Cession
This river marked the eastern starting point of the Oregon Trail
Missouri River
This invention allowed rapid communication across long distances.
Telegraph
This animal was central to Plains tribes’ survival.
Bison
Land controlled by the US that was not yet a state.
Territory
This word means obtaining or buying land.
Acquisition
A common disease settlers faced while traveling west.
Cholera, dysentery
This transportation system connected the East and West.
Railroad
Bison provided Plains tribes with these four important things.
Food, shelter, clothing, tools
Lewis and Clark explored this huge land purchase
Lousiana Territory/Purchase
The U.S. gained Oregon Territory through this agreement type.
Treaty
Settlers often suffered from this because supplies ran low
Lack of resources/starvation/dehydration
This invention helped settlers fence land cheaply
Barbed wire
Settlers wanted Native American land for this reason.
Expansion/settlement/farming
This state was annexed by the United States in 1845
Texas
One major negative effect of westward expansion on Native Americans
The Oregon Trail stretched about this many miles.
2,000 miles
This rail car invention allowed food to stay cold during travel.
Refrigerated rail car
This term means adopting another culture’s way of life.
Assimilation