People
Shawnee leader who tried to unite Native tribes against U.S. expansion; resisted loss of Native lands.
Tecumseh
Long mountain range in the eastern U.S.; barrier to early settlers moving west.
Appalachian Mountains
The people on the Oregon Trail traveled by what
What is a wagon?
This historic period became a time of sudden, massive migration to an area where gold had been discovered. What was this period called?
The Gold Rush
The name given to the removal of Cherokees from their homelands to what is now Oklahoma.
What is Trail of Tears?
Led frontier soldiers to capture British forts during the American Revolution.
George Rogers Clark
Major river in the Pacific Northwest; location of the Whitman Mission.
Columbia River
Name the reason people traveled the trail?
What is a better life and more land?
In 1848 this man spotted gold while working at Sutter's Mill near the American River in California.
James Marshall
The longest U.S. river; part of Lewis and Clark’s route to the West.
The Missouri River
Early frontiersman who opened the Wilderness Trail through the Appalachian Mountains into Kentucky.
Daniel Boone
Vast grasslands in the central U.S.; home to many Native American tribes and later farmers.
The Great Plains
Name three hardships the people faced while travleing
What is disease, weather, rivers, mountains, accidents, and Native Americans?
The Railroad imagined and explored by Theodore Judah.
The Transcontinental Railroad
Missionaries who traveled west to share the Gospel with Native Americans near the Columbia River.
Narcissa & Marcus Whitman
Fur trappers and explorers who discovered trails through the Rocky Mountains.
Mountain Men
Important route for pioneers traveling west into Kentucky and Ohio.
The Ohio River
Pioneers made an impact on the Native Americans. Name two ways this happened.
What is trading, diseases, and forcing them off their land?
Prospectors who came to California in 1849 are referred to as what?
Forty-niners
When different groups fail to understand each other’s traditions and beliefs, leading to conflict.
Cultural Misunderstanding
Mormon leader who led settlers to Utah to establish Salt Lake City.
Brigham Young
Major river that runs from Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico; trade and transportation route.
The Mississippi River
Explain Manifest Destiny.
What is the belief that America should expand its limits?
A method of searching for gold by washing sand and gravel in a pan.
Panning
Efforts by Native tribes (like Tecumseh’s Confederacy) to protect their land and way of life.
Native American Resistance