Going West
an outdoor fire used for warmth or cooking
What is a campfire?
goods that are moved from one place to another by ship, train, truck, wagon, or airplane
What is freight?
to meet someone or something unexpectedly
What is encountered?
the ability to go on for a long time despite pain or discomfort
What is endurance?
a person in someone's family who lived a long, long time aho
What is an ancestor?
things or places worth seeing
What are sights?
to carry from one place to another
What is transport?
something extremely unpleasant or uncomfortable
What is being miserable?
objects or structures on land that are easy to see and recognize
What is landmarks?
What is convenient?
a line or caravan of wagons
What is a wagon train?
waterways that made it faster and and much easier to head westward
What is a canal?
to move a home, people or animals from one place to another place
What is relocation?
a way to get from one place to another place
What is a route?
a nickname for the first locomotives
What is iron horse?
one of natural landmarks that Paul Bunyan created
What is Grand Canyon, Mississippi River, Rocky Mountains, or the Great Lakes?
a type of boat that floats on water that makes transporting heavy freight like coal and wood easier
What is a flatboat?
the Native American tribe that was forced out of their homes
What is the Cherokee people?
the reason the Pony Express was out of business after just 18 short months
What is a telegraph?
covered the length of something from one end to the other
What is spanned?
a two thousand mile wagon trail that ran from Missouri to the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Oregon Trail?
a type of weather (or precipitation) that made travel on the canals difficult
What is snow?
the place Native Americans rebuilt their lives
What is present day Oklahoma (Indian Territory)?
an American writer who was excited about the Pony Express and wrote about what he saw when he encountered the Pony Express during his trip across America
Who is Mark Twain?
a railroad system that stretches all the way from the East Coast to the West Coast of the continental United States
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?