Transportation
I am what Robert Fulton designed to travel faster and cheaper.
What is the steamboat?
I am the route between Missouri and the Oregon Territory that was traveled by settlers moving west.
What is the Oregon Trail?
What did pioneers need in order to travel West with bad weather, difficult travel paths, and unknown dangers ahead?
What is endurance?
I am a long journey, especially by sea.
What is a voyage?
I am the path that Native Americans traveled to move from Georgia to Indian Territory in Oklahoma.
What is the Trail of Tears?
I am a line of wagons traveling together.
What is a wagon train?
I am the nickname given to the first trains in America.
What is ironhorse?
I do not require a lot of effort or trouble?
What is convenient?
People who first settled in new areas of the frontier.
Who are pioneers?
Who invented a new writing system to help others?
Who is Sequoyah?
I am what boats used to travel from Albany to Buffalo.
What is the Erie Canal?
I am why pioneers traveled West?
What is for a better life, more land, or gold.
I am the path or trail of how people get from one place to another?
What is route?
I am a waterway used to move things from place to place using boats.
What is a canal?
I am the animal that the Lakota considered their source of life.
What is bison/buffalo?
I was a faster, cheaper, and more convenient way for people to move West.
What is the transcontinental railroad? (or trains)
I am the route between Missouri and California created to send mail on horseback from the East Coast to the West Coast.
What is the Pony Express?
I am how you would describe the Cherokee’s forced relocation.
What is miserable or difficult? (sad and cold)
I am an object or structure on land that is easy to recognize.
What is a landmark?
We were forced by the United States government to leave our homes and businesses and move to a new territory.
Who are the Cherokees?
What are at least 2 different forms of transportation that pioneers used to travel from the East Coast to the West
What are horses, covered wagons, steamboats, trains?
I am the railroad that connects the East Coast and West Coast of the United States.
What is the transcontinental railroad?
I am a region or area of land.
What is territory?
I am difficult situations that cause discomfort or suffering. The Cherokees endured many of these along the "Trail of Tears."
What are hardships?
I was made of gold and used to mark the special occasion of the Central Pacific Railroad and the Union Pacific Railroad completion.
What is the Golden Spike?