Vocabulary
A line of covered wagons that all moved together.
What is a wagon train?
Someone who went to California to mine for gold in 1849.
Who is a forty-niner?
The area pf land that Indians were forced to move to.
What is Indian Territory?
He wrote the Star-Spangled Banner after he saw the American flag flying over Fort Henry.
Who is Francis Scott Key?
What city grew during the Gold Rush?
What is San Francisco?
One of the first of a group of people to enter a region.
What is a pioneer?
Towns that populations grew very quickly.
What are Boomtowns?
The name of the trail that many Indians were forced to travel to Indian Territory.
What is the Trail of Tears?
The interpreter on the Lewis and Clark expedition.
Who is Sacagawea?
Why did people rush to California in 1849?
What is to find GOLD?
The edge of a country or settled region.
What is a frontier?
DAILY DOUBLE**
List 3 supplies that miners needed.
What are a mining pan, a shovel and a pick?
The name of the treaty that ended the war between Britain and the United States.
What is the Treaty of Ghent?
He led the army in the fight against Mexico.
Who is Sam Houston?
When American navy sailors were captured and forced to work on British ships.
What is Impressment?
Parts made by a machine to be the exact same size and shape.
What is interchangeable parts?
Fill in the blank....
Store owners and merchants selling ________ became more__________than the ____________.
The land south of the border between the western United States and Canada.
What is Oregon Territory?
The Indian chief who led the fight against the Indian Removal Act.
Who is John Ross?
The 30 people traveling with Lewis and Clark.
Who were the Corps of Discovery?
Making many parts at once.
What is mass production?
How long did the Gold rush last?
What is about 5 years?
A line of covered wagons that all moved together.
What is a wagon train?
He invented the cotton gin and idea of interchangeable parts.
Who is Eli Whitney?
The law that required all Indians to move west of the Mississippi River.