People
Steamboats
Miscellaneous
East to West
Riddles
100

Sequaoya created a writing system for a Native American tribe.

What are Cherokee people?

100

Robert Fulton developed this.

What is the steamboat?

100

Forced the Cherokee to move westward.

What is the US Government?

100

I am the railroad that connects the East Coast to the West Coast of the United States.

What is Transcontinental Railroad?

100

I am the route between Missouri and the Oregon Territory that was traveled by settlers moving west.

What is the Oregon Trail?

200

Robert Fulton invented the Clermont to travel up and down the Hudson River in 1807.

What is the steamboat that Robert Fulton invented?

200

Canal built for shipping.

What is the Erie Canal?

200

Hardships

What are the difficult situations that cause discomfort or suffering?

200

The years the settlers traveled from the East Coast to the West Coast.

What is 1840-1860?

200

I am the overland route between Missouri and California created to send mail on horseback from the East Coast to the West Coast.

What is the Pony Express?

300

A person who moved from the East Coast to the West Coast.

Who is a pioneer?

300

The importance of the steamboat.

What is that it was cheaper, more efficient, and could haul more people and cargo?

300

Settled

What is the move to a new place and make it your home?

300

Three businessmen started the Pony express mail delivery was between two towns and states.

What is St Joseph, Missouri and Sacramento, California?

300

I am the animal that the Lakota considered their source of life.

What is the Bison or Buffalo?

400

Native Americans depended on this animal for food, clothing, and weapons.

What is a Bison or Buffalo?

400

Called the "Ironhorse".

What is the steamboat?

400

Territory

What is a region or area of land?

400

This is where the Oregon Trail began.

What is St Joseph, Missouri?

400

We are forms of transportation that pioneers used to travel from East Coast to the West. (4)

What are horses, covered wagons, steamboats, and trains?

500

The Cherokee were forced to march on this.

What is the Trail of Tears?

500

Named the Clermont.

What is Robert Fulton's steamboat?

500

Route

What is a way to get from one place to another?

500

In 1869, a method of travel connected Omaha, Nebraska, and San Francisco,  California.

What is the transcontinental railroad?

500

I am the nickname given to the first trains in America.

What is the Iron Horse?