People
A person who trains and herds cattle.
What is a cowboy?
Connected East to West and made travel MUCH easier for the pioneers.
What was the Continental Railroad
The reason the Pony Express stopped running.
What was the telegraph?
The main source of all the needs (food, housing, clothes, tools, etc.).
What is a buffalo?
The man who made a lot of money selling blue jeans to miners.
Who was Levi Strauss?
A fast way of sending mail.
What was The Pony Express?
Robert Fulton's invention, the Clemont, that could carry people and cargo faster than other boats on the rivers.
What is a steamboat?
Minnesota, Wisconsin, North and South Dakota.
What is where the Dakota Indians lived and still live?
The Plains Indians that were also known as the Sioux and Lakota.
Who were the Dakota?
People rushing to California around 1849.
What was The Gold Rush?
A clothing item that Levi Strauss made a lot of money from by selling to the Forty-Niners.
What is the blue jean?
A famous battle that the Native American's won against the settlers.
What is Little Bighorn?
A pioneer who helped open the frontier and explored a trail through the Appalachian Mountains.
Who was Daniel Boone?
The march of the Cherokee people to Oklahoma.
What was The Trail of Tears?
Connects Lake Erie with the Hudson River.
What is the Erie Canal?
What is the Cherokee?
A Native American man that taught his tribe to read and write.
Who was Sequoyah?
The road that took people West by wagon trails.
What was The Oregon Trails?
A place where the Indians were forced to live after surrendering to the settlers.
What is a reservation?
The thing that the Plains Indians burned for fuel.
What is buffalo chips?