Inventions Roads and Railroads
The Lone Star State
Trails to the West
The California Gold Rush
Vocabulary
100
This state is known as the Lone Star State.
What is Texas?
100
A type of wagon built solidly for the trip west with a cover to keep out sun, wind, and rain. It also had large wheels to make traveling over rough terrain easier. The bed was made watertight to make crossing rivers easier.
What is the prairie schooner.
100
A soft, yellow metal soft enough to be formed into beautiful objects.
What is Gold?
100
A human made waterway.
What is a canal
200
This was the first true railroad in the U.S.A.
What is the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad?
200
Mexican forces stormed a famous fort in this battle that took place on March 6, 1863. The Texans were defeated.
What is the Battle of the Alamo?
200
This trail was named after a group of settlers who moved west seeking religious freedom. Their journey ended in Utah where they settled forming Salt Lake City.
What is the Mormon Trail?
200
In this year more than 80,000 people left their jobs, homes, and families to seek gold in California.
What is 1849?
200
The period where there was a shift from making goods by hand often in a home workshop to making goods in a factory.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
300
He invented the cotton gin.
Who is Eli Whitney?
300
He took command of the Texas Army on March 2, 1863. A major city in Texas is named for him.
Who is Sam Houston?
300
This trail was about 900 miles long, beginning in Independence, Missouri and ending in Santa Fe in what was then Mexico. This trail was traveled more by traders than it was settlers.
What is the Santa Fe Trail?
300
A rapid flood of people into an area where gold has been discovered.
What is a gold rush?
300
The idea that the U.S. had a right to add territory until it reached the Pacific Ocean.
What is Manifest Destiny?
400
In 1820 congress passed this which brought Maine and Missouri into the union.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
400
This trail was too rough for wagons. Traders traveled it instead with packed mules. They often traded with native americans on the way.
What is the Old Spanish Trail?
400
Another name for the people who took a risk to start a business in the booming areas of California. They thought they could get rich selling supplies to those seeking gold.
What is an entrepreneur?
400
A line of wagons traveling as a group to places like California or Oregon.
What is a Wagon Train?
500
A skilled mechanic from Britain, he helped make the building of factories possible.
Who is Samuel Slater?
500
This river divides Texas and Mexico.
What is the Rio Grande?
500
This trail was over 2000 miles long. It began in Independence, Missouri and ended in Oregon Country.
What is the Oregon Trail?
500
A system of carrying mail by horse that began as a quick way to get mail to California.
What is the Pony Express?
500
Poor treatment because of your religion.
What is persecution?
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