Manifest Destiny
In 1803, President Jefferson purchased this.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
The original thirteen American colonies were all east of this mountain range.
What is the Appalachian Mountains?
This pass was rediscovered in 1824 by Jedediah Smith.
What is the South Pass?
These mountains seemed impossible to travel by wagon until a pass was rediscovered in 1824.
What are the Rocky Mountains?
This type of fuel was gathered by children along the California route in the plains.
What is buffalo chips?
President Jefferson sent these two men to lead a team of exploration that traveled to the Pacific Ocean and back to Missouri.
Who is Merriweather Lewis and William Clark?
To travel from Virginia to Kentucky in 1800, pioneers such as Sarah Keyes took this trail.
What is the Wilderness Trail?
This merchant opened this trail in 1821 to trade with Mexico.
Who is William Becknell?
These mountains are where the Donner Party was trapped for five months and nearly starved.
What are the Sierra Nevada Mountains?
This landmark in the Great Plains could be seen from forty miles away.
What is Chimney Rock?
From which country did President Jefferson make a purchase that doubled the size of the United States?
What is France?
This trail was a popular trade route between the United States and Mexico
What is the Santa Fe Trail?
This trail was cut open in 1775 and went to Kentucky.
What is the Wilderness Trail?
These mountains are passable by wagon because of the Cumberland Gap.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
This landmark was called the Great Register because people carved their names into it.
What is Independence Rock?
What was the name President Jefferson gave his dream of expanding the United States all the way across the continent?
What is Empire of Liberty?
This trail begun in Independence, Missouri, and traveled to Fort Hall where it split into two routes.
What is the California Trail, what is the Oregon Trail?
The Cumberland Gap was cut open in 1775 by this man.
Who is Daniel Boone?
Robert Smith first discovered the pass in these mountains.
What are the Rocky Mountains?
This fort was the halfway mark of the California Trail and wagon trains should have been there by July fourth
What is Fort Laramie?
Who is Sacagawea?
This trail carried almost half a million Americans to the west.
What is the California / Oregon Trail?
This mountain man helped map the Rocky Mountains and was the first American to travel across the Sierra Nevadas from the west to the east.
Who is Jedediah Smith?
To travel by wagon to Virginia to California, one has to cross these three mountain ranges.
This fort was named after the mountain man who founded it and was the last fort the Donner Party visited before taking Hastings Cutoff
What is Fort Bridger?