Oregon Trail Life
This trail stretched from Missouri to Oregon and was used by settlers heading west.
What is the Oregon Trail?
This event brought over 250,000 people to California.
What is the California Gold Rush?
This invention allowed faster land travel and led to thousands of miles of railroad track.
What is the steam locomotive?
This invention allowed messages to be sent quickly over long distances.
What is the telegraph?
This slogan helped Texas gain independence from Mexico.
What is “Remember the Alamo”?
Life on the Oregon Trail was this.
What is challenging?
A “Forty-Niner” was someone who did what?
Someone who traveled west in 1849 to look for gold.
This invention, created by Robert Fulton, allowed faster travel on water.
What is the steamboat?
The telegraph made communication ____________. Fill in the blank.
What is faster/quick?
This event involved 200 Americans fighting 3,000 Mexican soldiers.
What is the Battle of the Alamo?
Name one challenge settlers faced while traveling on the Oregon Trail.
Illness, bad weather, lack of food/water
True or False: Most Forty-Niners found gold.
False
This invention removed seeds from cotton.
What is the cotton gin?
Why was the telegraph important to a growing nation?
Connected people across distant areas and/or got information out faster.
Families packed all their belongings in a wagon to start a new life out west.
What is the Oregon Trail?
Which of these was NOT a common Oregon Trail problem? Lack of food and clean water, Bad weather conditions, Illness and disease, OR Cattle breaking loose and running away
What is cattle breaking loose and running away?
Why did many Americans head west in the 1800s?
The government offered cheap or free land.
How did the cotton gin affect cotton production?
It removed seeds faster, increasing production.
Which invention changed communication but did NOT allow people to talk directly to each other?
What is the telegraph?
Many people left home hoping to become rich.
What is the Gold Rush?
Why did settlers use the trail shown on the map?
To reach new territory on the West Coast.
How did the Gold Rush change where people lived?
Many people moved west; boomtowns formed.
Explain how new transportation inventions helped westward expansion.
Faster travel, easier trade, movement of people and goods.
How did improved communication support westward expansion?
Helped coordinate travel, trade, government decisions.
This 1800s belief said it was America’s clear fate to expand west from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Manifest Destiny?