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What is
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What was it called when thousands of people traveled west in search of wealth in California.
The Gold Rush
Communicate
A shot with a weakened virus that helps fight off disease
vaccine
From which country in Asia did a lot of people immigrate from to work on the railroads in the US?
China
What is A waterway dug by humans?
A canal
What is the word for a region that forms the edge of a settled area
Frontier
something that is made for the first time.
Invention
Someone who works to make change happen
Activist
Who helped Lewis and Clark navigate and communicate with Native Americans on the journey?
Saccagawea
What word means:
transcontinental
1882 US government not letting certain people from Asia come into the country
The Chinese Exclusion Act
Patent
Each worker does only part of a job in putting a product together
Assembly Line
The Cumberland Gap Trail
1804
An area of land that includes a house and buildings
Homestead
Samuel Morse
What is one invention that caused people’s lives to change in the 1900’s?
Automobile
Lots of people moved west to start new lives
2 and a half years
A person who travels from one country to settle in another country.
Immigrant
18 months
Explain how Harriet Tubman worked to make people’s lives better.
Helped slaves escape on the underground railroad
List 2 reasons people traveled together in wagon trains?
- It was safer to travel in groups
- They could help each other if someone got hurt or sick