Westward
Pioneers
The Lone Star State
Let's Go West
Gold Rush!
100

The Westward movement happened during what time period?

1800's

100

What did the Homestead At promise families if the moved west?.

Land

100
In 1820, this now U.S. state was apart of Mexico.
What is Texas?
100
The idea that the U.S. had a right to add territory until it reached the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Manifest Destiny?
100
The rapid flood of people into an area where gold has been discovered.
What is the gold rush?
200

A person who travels westward in the 1800's to get to western states or great plains ares is called a_______________________?

Pioneer

200

A ______________ was a person who traveled west and took advantage of the Homestead Act

Homesteader

200
These are Mexican cowboys.
What is a vaqueros?
200
A line of wagons
What is a wagon trail?
200
The miners mining for gold were called this because the gold rush happened in 1849.
What is the fourty-niners?
300

The _______________trail is the most well known trail traveled by pioneers.

Oregon trail

300

About how long would it take a pioneer to go to western states like Oregon or California?

5 months

300
On March 6, the Mexican forces stormed this now famous place in Texas. It was a battle fought where the Texans defended a walled fortress.
What is the Alamo?
300
The typical covered wagon.
What is a prairie schooner?
300
Miners ran stream water through this long, sloping wooden box. Wooden bars across the bottom of the box kept the lighter material moving along. Any gold stayed on the bottom.
What is a sluice?
400

How did pioneer families travel west?

Covered wagons

400

For safety, groups of wagons would travel west with groups called?

wagon trains

400
The Texas cavalry yelled this as they charged towards their enemy.
What is "Remember the Alamo"?
400
The mormons decided to travel west to escape this.
What is persecution?
400
Someone who takes a risk to start a business.
What is an entrepreneur?
500

The belief that America had a destiny to grow all the way to the west coast is called?

Manifest destiny

500

What kind of animal was the most commonly used to pull a wagon?

oxen

500
The law that brought two states into the union. Maine would be a free state, where slavery wouldn't be allowed. Missouri would be a slave state, where slavery was allowed. The law also banned the rest of the Louisiana Purchase.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
500
It became the capital of California because the California Trail ended there.
What is Sacramento?
500
A system of carrying mail by horse.
What is the Pony Express?
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