Settlers of the American West often travelled in these groups.
What are wagon trains?
100
These two men made the first journey by citizens of the United States to the west coast and the Pacific Ocean.
Who are Lewis and Clark?
100
This new addition to the United States started the gold rush of 1849.
What is California?
100
On April 30 of this year, the United States and France signed the Louisiana Purchase Treaty.
What is 1803?
100
John Deere invented this tool that would break through the tough top soil in the west.
What is the steel plow?
200
This cloth-covered wagon was a practical choice for pioneer families and fortune hunters heading westward.
What are prairie schooners?
200
This man negotiated the Treaty of Paris.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
200
This territory doubled the size of the United States after it was purchased.
What is the Louisiana Territory?
200
Meriwether Lewis was born on August 18 of this year.
What is 1774?
200
This tool reduced farm labor and increased production for farming.
What is the mechanical reaper?
300
Many pioneers preferred to use one of these on the rivers as a means of transportation.
What are flatboats?
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What are rafts?
300
This woman was a guide for the Lewis and Clark expedition.
Who is Sacagawea?
300
This southern territory was given to the United States by Spain by a treaty.
What is Florida?
300
William Clark was born on August 1 of this year.
What is 1770?
300
This machine allowed people to communicate across long distances.
What is the telegraph?
400
By the 1820s these were carrying passengers and goods up and down eastern and western rivers.
What are steamboats?
400
This man invented the telegraph machine.
Who is Samuel Morse?
400
This territory in the northwest was divided by the United States and Great Britain.
What is the Oregon Territory?
400
The Treaty of Paris is signed by the United States and Great Britain.
What is 1783?
400
Peter Cooper, a mechanic that taught himself, built this machine to pull train cars or carriages.
What is the steam engine?
500
A competition between Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroad companies resulted in the construction of this railroad west of the Mississippi River.
What is the transcontinental railroad?
500
This president bought the Louisiana Territory from France.
Who is Thomas Jefferson
500
This independent republic became a part of the United States after it separated from Mexico.
What is Texas?
500
President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act into law on May 20 of this year.
What is 1862?
500
John Fulton, a man who started out as a painter but later became an inventor, was the inventor of this amazing new boat.