Definitions
Trains
Gold Rush
Pioneer Hardships
Trail of Tears
100
One of the first people to settle in a place
What is a pioneer
100
The nickname of the people who financed (paid) for the railroad to be built.
Who are the "Big Four"?
100
Levi Strauss sold goods at his store during the gold rush and invented this important product that we use today.
What are blue jeans
100
This pioneer hardship made it important to time their travels carefully
What is bad weather?
100
The reason the Cherokee were sent away on the Trail of Tears.
What is the white people wanted their land
200
A journey or voyage undertaken by a group of people with a particular purpose especially that of exploration
What is an expedition?
200
These immigrants comprised a large group of workers on the railroad.
Who were the Chinese?
200
The nickname for the miners based on the year of the gold rush.
Who were the 49ers?
200
These animals could stampede and cause a lot of trouble
What are buffalo?
200
The name of the tribe who went on the Trail of Tears.
Who are the Cherokee?
300
A water route from the Atlantic to the Pacific that did not exist
What is the Northwest Passage?
300
The name of the railroad started by Theodore Judah.
What is the Central Pacific Railroad?
300
The 3 routes to the California Gold Rush.
What are the Overland, Panama and the Cape Horn routes?
300
A wagon wheel could get trapped in this.
What is mud?
300
The approximate distance they had to travel on the trail of tears.
What is 1000 miles?
400
A phrase used by leaders and petitioners in the 1840s explaining that continental expansion by the US was national destiny.
What is Manifest Destiny?
400
The nickname for the giant locomotive.
What is the Iron Horse?
400
The first person to discover gold
Who is James Marshall?
400
You might have to pay a toll for this
What is passing by the Native Americans?
400
The president who forced the Cherokee out.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
500
The ridge of mountains in the Western US from which rivers flow to the east on one side and to the west on the other side
What is the Continental Divide?
500
This railroad started in the west and went east.
What is the Union Pacific Railroad?
500
Two out of three of the different mining techniques used in the California gold rush.
What are pan, hydraulic and long tom?
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