United States Growth
Reasons to Move West
Industrial Revolution
Problems/Obstacles
Native Americans
100
The growing amount of people in a city
What is population?
100
People were able to make money and a living off of these
What are jobs?
100
Helped people work faster and made jobs easier
What are machines?
100
The people on the Oregon trail traveled by this
What is the wagon?
100
Pushed the Native Americans from their home land
What is settlers?
200
The purchase of land from France in 1803
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
200
Large areas that the settlers gained in the West
What is land?
200
The machine created by Eli Whitney for field workers
What is the Cotton Gin?
200
Not having enough food caused this to happen
What is Starvation?
200
The forcing out of Native Americans from their land
What is the Indian Removal Act?
300
The farms eventually turned into these
What are factories?
300
This was better to grow crops in
What is Fertile land?
300
Two problems of kids working in factories
What is little pay, long hours, injuries and death?
300
A natural disaster caused by bad weather that the people on the Oregon Trail ran into
What are floods?
300
The name given to the route the Indians took from their home land to new land
What is the Trail of Tears?
400
Two means of faster transportation
What is the train and steamboat?
400
The event that happened when people "rushed" to California
What is the Gold Rush?
400
Automated machine that harvests crops
What is the Mechanical Reaper?
400
Two obstacles that the people on the Oregon Trail ran into
What is sickness, no shelter, broken wagon and wild animals?
400
Reservations or separate piece of land
What is Indian Territory?
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