Trails West
Erie Canal/Waterways
Native Americans
100

The path that thousands of people took west in wagon trains was called the ________. 

Oregon Trail 

100

What river do you see pictured in red?

The Mississippi River

100

The animal that supplied most of the needs of the Plains Native Americans was the ______.

Buffalo

200

Settlers on the eastern part of the United States first had to cross the ______ on their journey west. 

Appalachian Mountains

200

The Erie Canal connects Lake Erie with the _______. 

Hudson River

200

The portable _________ was a common home for Plains Native Americans that they used to follow wildlife to hunt. 

Teepee

300

The Pony Express was _________.

A faster way to send mail to people out west. 

300

Robert Fulton developed the ___________.

Steamboat

300

The march of the Cherokee people from Georgia to Oklahoma is called the ________. 

Trail of Tears

400

The Santa Fe Trail was a major ______ route that ended in Santa Fe. 

Trade

400

The Erie Canal went west across what state?

New York

400

Sequoyah took almost ten years to create _____________ for the Cherokee people. 

An alphabet for a written language.

500

The Pony Express went west from _______ to ________. 

St. Joseph, MI

to 

Sacramento, CA

500

________ had the idea to make the Erie Canal. 

DeWitt Clinton

500

________ was a member of the Creek tribe that fought against white settlers in the southeastern part of the United States.

Osceola

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