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Describe a pioneers journey westward.
Ms. Waldrop will decide.
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What is another name for a trip or journey?
Voyage
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What are hardships?
difficult situations that cause discomfort or suffering
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Who developed (created) the steamboat?
Robert Fulton
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What was the most famous canal built during the Canal Era?
The Erie Canal
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What is it called when something does NOT require a lot of effort?
Convenient
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What is a difficult trail traveled by wagon trains?
The Oregon Trail
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What did the transcontinental railroad link? Or SPAN across?
The west coast and east coast
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What are objects or structures on land that are easy to recognize called?
Landmarks
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What is a horseback mail delivery system called?
The Pony Express
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Is the Pony Express used today? (yes or no)
No
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What is this image?
The thirteen colonies
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What is the Trail of Tears? (who, and why is it called the Trail of Tears)
- forced march of the Cherokee from their homes to what was called “Indian Territory”
- involved lots of suffering, tears, death, and hardships.
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What were the 3 new ways of transportation that increased the movement of people westward?
Steamboats, canals, trains
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What are the people who first settled in new areas of the frontier called?
Pioneers
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Who forced Native Americans from their land as the country expanded westward?
The U.S. government
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What is the iron horse?
- Nickname of the first trains of America
- Iron because the train engines were iron
- Horse, because it had the power of horses which were what were previously used to pull and travel
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Describe family life on the frontier.
Ms. Waldrop will decide.
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What are 2 names for this animal?
Bison & Buffalo
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What is the blue line showing in this image?
The Oregon Trail
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What are the advantages of rail travel?
- faster and allowed for quicker movement of goods and people
- more easily accessible for people and for people moving, that's why there was an increase of population in the west, because people could get there easier
- improved communication and connectivity between the people
- allowed for new markets, towns, and cities, and opened up land for agriculture and mining
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What is the significance (importance) of the steamboat?
- movement westward increased because the steamboat (when it could be used) was faster, cheaper, and more reliable than other forms of river transportation
- the steamboat could carry people and goods faster than other boats, and the design allowed the steamboat to carry more people and goods on each voyage
- the steamboat was proven to be better and faster than the sailboat
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What was the effect of diminishing buffalo on the life of Plains Native Americans?
- it made hunting grounds smaller
- forced them into different lands
- threaten the people’s lives by killing so many bison
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What is the significance (importance) of canals?
Canals connected rivers to lakes or other rivers. By using canals, steamboats and other types of boats, Americans were able to travel to more places.
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What is the significance (importance) of Sequoyah’s invention of the Cherokee writing system?
- allowed the Cherokee people to communicate through writing systems as well as speaking
- allowed for preservation of Cherokee people