Trails
Conflicts
Important People
Moving West
Communication and Travel
100

The earliest trail used mainly for trade and moving cattle

What is the Santa Fe Trail?

100

These Native Americans fought with the United States for their land in Florida

Who are the Seminoles?

100

He cleared a path through Cumberland Gap

Who is Daniel Boone?

100
A law that gave free land to U.S. citizens in the West

What is the Homestead Act?

100
An invention by Samuel Morse

What is the telegraph?

200

The starting point of the Santa Fe Trail, the Oregon Trail, and the California Trail

What is Independence, Missouri?

200

The victors in the Battle of the Alamo

Who are the Mexicans?
200

They explored the West and reached the Pacific Ocean

Who are Lewis and Clark?

200

The nickname of the men who rushed to California in search of gold

Who are the 49ers?

200

This form of transportation made traveling from coast to coast quicker

What is the railroad?

300

The main reason people followed the California Trail

What is to find gold?
300
A law to move Native Americans out of the Southeast United States to west of the Mississippi River

What is the Indian Removal Act?

300

She was an interpreter for Lewis and Clark's expedition

Who is Sacagawea?

300

This president purchased the Louisiana Territory

Who is Thomas Jefferson?

300
The method of transporting transcontinental messages on horseback

What is the Pony Express?

400

The trail Native Americans were forced from their homes to travel west, on which they were mistreated by white settlers and suffered from starvation and exhaustion

What is the Trail of Tears?

400

This president supported the Indian Removal Act

Who is Andrew Jackson?

400

He was the Mexican leader at the Alamo

Who is General Santa Anna?

400

This president sent Lewis and Clark on their expedition out west

Who is Thomas Jefferson?

400

The invention that replaced the Pony Express for better communication

What is the telegraph?

500

The length of the Oregon Trail

What is 2,000 miles?

500

The war that resulted in the Seminoles retreating into the Everglades

What is the Third Seminole War?

500

He was a Mormon leader seeking religious freedom

Who is Brigham Young?

500

The term first used by John L. O'Sullivan to describe the belief that the U.S. should extend from the Atlantic Coast to the Pacific Coast?

What is Manifest Destiny?

500

A law signed by Abraham Lincoln that provided government assistance to build the first continental railroad

What is the Pacific Railroad Act?

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