Vocabulary
Travel - Water
Travel - West
New Lives in The West
Native Americans are Forced to Move
100
Border of country and wilderness is called the __________.
Frontier
100
Settlers built these to transport goods to the rivers.
Canals
100
Horace Greeley, in a New York newspaper, advised people to do this.
Move West
100
Settlers needed these two things to survive.
Food, Shelter
100
A Native American named Junaluska saved this man during the war against the British.
General Andrew Jackson
200
Waterway dug by people to connect two bodies of water.
Canal
200
The Erie Canal cost this much to build.
Seven Million
200
These two groups of people lived in the Western part of the US.
Native Americans, Mexicans
200
Name two things that settlers had to make for themselves.
Furniture, Clothes, Tools
200
This Native American tribe was one of the most important in the South East.
Cherokee
300
This stated that Indians had to move West of the Mississippi River.
Indian Removal Act
300
The Erie Canal connects these two bodies of water.
Lake Erie & Hudson River
300
Name the two trails that went West.
Oregon, Santa Fe
300
Person who moves from another country.
Immigrant
300
Two reasons why the whites wanted Cherokee land.
Good for growing cotton, gold had been there.
400
President Jackson wanted the Native Americans relocated to this place.
Indian Territory
400
Name the main advantage of the Erie Canal.
Cheaper to transport goods.
400
Settlers used this method of transport to travel West.
Covered Wagons
400
Only these people could vote in the West (name three characteristics).
White, Male, Over 21
400
This stated that Indians had to move to land West of the Mississippi.
Indian Removal Act
500
Name of Cherokee's journey to their new lands.
Trail of Tears
500
One of the cities that grew up alongside the Erie Canal.
Syracuse, Rochester, Buffalo, New York
500
Families travelled together in these for safety.
Wagon Trains
500
How Eastern states changed their voting laws.
No longer had to own land - still had to be white, male, over 21.
500
Cherokee named their move to land in the west the ____________.
Trail of Tears
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