Definitions
People traveled in groups of wagons called ________________ along the Oregon Trail
What are wagon trains?
Length of a decade
What is 10 years?
Length of Lewis and Clarks journey to the west
What is 2 years?
The far edge of a country where a group of peope are just beginning to settle
What is a frontier?
Daniel Boone's nickname
What is the Pathfinder?
Order in which we read events on a timeline
The first person of a group to settle in an area new to them
What is a pioneer?
This doubled the size of the US
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
One reason people moved west
What is to look for new communities, farmland, and to open businesses?
Railroad that stretched across the continent
What is a transcontinental railroad?
New trail Daniel Boone created from old Native American trails
What is the Wilderness Road?
Year US bought land from France
What is 1803?
Length of a century
What is one hundred years?
Native American that helped Lewis and Clark during their exploration west
Who was Sacagawea?
President that sent Lewis and Clark on their journey
Who is President Thomas Jefferson?