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This is one sight NOT seen by Lewis & Clark on their expedition.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
This was the biggest advantage of steamboat travel compared to other river travel.
What is the ability to go both upstream and downstream?
This is the word that means where newly settled areas meet unsettles, but not necessarily uninhabited, areas.
What is frontier?
This is the word that means a settlement built for the purpose of converting Native Americans to Christianity.
What is a mission?
This is what Mexico asked the Americans settling in Texas to do.
What is become loyal Mexican citizens?
This is how Sacagawea helped Lewis & Clark.
What is guide them through unfamiliar land?
This is the word for a place where travelers can pay to eat and sleep.
What is an inn?
This was Tecumseh's idea for resisting American settlers.
What is uniting Native American tribes against the Americans?
This is the word for a person who translates from one language to another.
What is an interpreter?
This was the main effect on the rest of the country of building the Erie Canal in New York.
What is other states also building canals?
With the Mexican War, President Polk hoped to add new areas to the United States. These were two of them.
What are California and New Mexico?
This is the main reason that travel in America in the early 1700s was so difficult.
What are bad roads?
As Americans took over more and more land, this is what happened to Native Americans.
What is being forced to live in certain areas?
This is the word that means a railroad engine.
What is a locomotive?
This is why Texas wasn't admitted to the United States right away.
What is that it allowed slavery?
This is why Mormons settled in the Far West.
What is to avoid religious persecution?
This is why Oregon Country was so valuable to America.
What is the fur of its animals?
This is the word that means a formal agreement between two or more groups, especially countries.
What is a treaty?
This is the word that means a sense or belief that a certain action is right or wrong.
What is conscience?
True or false: During the California gold rush, more than 80,000 people flocked to California, very few of them "struck it rich," and prospecting was a hard way of life.
What is true?
This is how Daniel Boone helped encourage settlement of the West.
What is cleared a pass through the Appalachian Mountains?
This is the word that means to leave one country to permanently settle in another.
What is emigrate?
This is what the Battle of the Alamo represented to the Texans who fought the Mexican Army under the leadership of Sam Houston.
What is the conflict between the Texans and the Mexicans?
This is the word for the distance between the equator and a place north or south of the equator; measured in degrees.
What is latitude?
This is the word that means one of the first people to settle in a region.
What is a pioneer?