Vocab
Native Americans
Oregon Trail
Underground Railroad
Canada
100

Nickname for the southern United States

Sunbelt 

100

Indigenous people of North America with hundreds of unique tribes. 

What is Native Americans

100

A 2,000 mile route from Missouri to Oregon. 

The Oregon Trail 

100

A network helping enslaved African Americans escape to freedom. 

The Underground Railroad

100

First Inhabitants of Canada

The Inuit tribe 

200

American music developed from ragtime and blues with African rhythms

Jazz

200

Used for food, clothing, and spiritual ceremonies. 

What is the Buffalo 

200

5 Month journey that marked the beginning of large scale westward movement. 

The Great Emigration of 1843

200

The name of those who joined the Railroad

Freedom seekers 

200

Quebec City was founded by 

Samuel de Champlain

300

The head of an elected government in Canada

Prime Minister

300

The Lakota, Cheyenne and Comanche Tribes 

What is the Plain Tribes 

300

An event that had a major impact on why people chose to go on the Oregon Trail. 

The Gold Rush

300

Common Destinations for freedom seekers

Canada, Mexico, Spanish Florida, Europe 

300

How long did the Fur Trade Last 

72 Years

400

North American Free Trade Agreement; allows open trade with US, Mexico, and Canada.

NAFTA

400

Northwest Tribes lived in this? 

Longhouses 

400

Items brought on the Trail

food, clothes, coffee and guns 

400

Required citizens to assist in capturing run away slaves.  

The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850  

400

Who were the first to explore Canada? 

John Cabot and Jacques Cartier

500

Taxes on imported goods

Tariffs 

500

What is a reason why Tribes would go to war? 

Resources, Territory, Trade 

500

A Protestant Missionary and doctor who establish the Whitman Mission. 

Marcus Whitman

500

A famous conductor who never lost a passenger 

Harriet Tubman

500

Who fought in the Seven Years War? 

Great Britain and the French