This is the trail that miners traveled on to find gold.
What is the California Trail?
100
This is the reason why many Pioneers went west.
What is to get away from crowded areas of the East or to start farms on cheap land in the West?
100
This is where the first cowboys probably came from.
What is Mexico?
100
This is the name of the road that Daniel Boone cleared.
What is the Wilderness Road?
100
This is the name of the state that Daniel Boone was born in.
What is Pennsylvania?
200
This is the trail that families traveled on in wagon trains.
What is the Oregon Trail?
200
This was the first place that the Pioneers had to cross on their journey.
What is the Great Plains?
200
This is what people did who followed the cowboys.
What is set up farms, start businesses and build towns?
200
This state is where Daniel Boone was successful in forming a settlement.
What is Kentucky?
200
This is how long it took to get to the end of the Oregon Trail.
What is four to six months?
300
This is the trail that traders traveled on to buy/sell goods.
What is the Santa Fe Trail?
300
These are two reasons Pioneers went west.
What is to become miners and to buy and sell gold?
300
This was the main trail for driving cattle out of Texas.
What is the Chisholm Trail?
300
This is the Native American tribe that caught Daniel Boone and took his furs and told him to stay out of their territory.
Who are the Shawnee Native Americans?
300
This is a low point in the mountains.
What is a pass?
400
This is why a Pioneer would turn south from the Oregon Trail.
What is to get to the California Trail to hopefully find gold?
400
This is a challenge the Pioneers faced when traveling to the Pacific Coast.
What is they had to cross high mountains that were steep and sometimes covered with snow?
400
This is the town in Kansas that grew in population.
What is Abilene?
400
This is the the name of the new settlement in Kentucky that was named for Daniel Boone.
What is Boonesborough?
400
Name a difference between the Pilgrims and the Pioneers.
What are...
-the Pilgrims traveled by boat and the Pioneers traveled by wagon trains?
-the Pilgrims were looking for religious freedom and the Pioneers were looking for land of their own?
500
This is another name for guide.
What is a scout?
500
This is what made crossing a river dangerous.
What is fast moving water and holes along river bottoms?
500
Name a reason that Abilene grew in population.
What is..
-because the railroad ended in Abilene?
-people in the east needed beef?
-the cowboys drove cattle from Texas north along the Chisholm Trail to Abilene?
500
This is the name of Daniel Boone's wife.
What is Rebecca (Bryan)?
500
This is what the Pilgrims had in common with the Pioneers.
What is...
-they both faced difficult journeys?
-both journeys were from east to west?
-many people suffered?