Vocabulary
When you go from one place to another
1. territory
2 wagon train
3 route
4 canal
route
a very long trip that is either far away or not well known by a traveler
1. settled
2. territory
3. voyage
voyage
objects or structures on land that are easy to see and recognize
1. iron horse
2. landmark
3. routes
landmarks
This type of transportation is called the "iron horse"
a steam train
What route was used to move the Native Americans west?
The Trail of Tears
This is how most pioneers traveled west at the beginning of westward expansion.
1. transportation
2 wagon train
3. airplane
4. train
wagon train
A waterway made by man to join two bodies of water in order to transport things.
1. canal
2. bridge
3. river
canal
useful or close by to accomplish a purpose
1. hardship
2. endurance
3. convenient
convenient
What route was used to move Native Americans west
Who created a written language for the Cherokee?
Sequoyah
These are the people who moved west by choice.
1. pioneers
2. Native Americans
3. pilgrims
pioneers
To make something new
create
What the pony express and telegraphs were used for
communicate
Robert Fulton
What types of things did the Native Americans and the pioneers, have to face when on the Trail of Tears or the Oregon Trail?
Hunger, animals, sickness, weather, broken wagons, lost items
What do you call difficult situations that can cause discomfort or suffering?
1. endurance
2. voyage
3. hardship
hardship
1. canal
2. territory
3. colony
territory
wagon, steamboat, steam train, horseback
transportation
What mode of transportation became obsolete with the creation of the telegraph?
The pony express
What problems did the Native Americans have with westward expansion
Steam train and the wagon trains
people killing their bison
having to be relocated
To create a permanent home in a new area
1. voyage
2. settled
3. communicate
settled
The ability to go on for a long time, even if you are in pain or discomfort.
1.endurance
2. convenient
3. route
endurance
What we call what the trains ran on to get to the west.
Transcontinental Railroad
Why did the pioneers want to move west?
more space and have a better life
What tribe only killed enough buffalo that they needed?
Lakota Sioux