Vocabulary
Is a material made from animal skin.
The Union Pacific and Central Pacific joined together to form the____.
a. transcontinental railroad
b. Erie Canal
c. Oregon Trail
a. transcontinental railroad
The Pony Express was ______.
a. another name for cattle drives.
b. a fast way of sending mail.
c. what people called the railroad.
b. a fast way of sending mail.
What are reservations?
Are areas of land set aside by the government for Native Americans to live.
Robert Fulton developed the _____.
a. railroad
b. steamboat
c. keelboat
b. steamboat
A person who trains horses and guards cattle is called a _____.
a. forty-niner
b. settler
c. cowboy
c. cowboy
What are swymbols?
Are pictures or objects that represent something else.
The Erie Canal connects Lake Erie with the _____.
a. Mississippi River
b. Hudson River
c. Rocky Mountains
b. Hudson River
The Cherokee writing system was created by _____.
a. Sequoyah
b. Bronco Charlie
c. Daniel Boone
a. Sequoyah
What does communicate mean?
To share or exchange information.
People rushed to California because _______.
a. the government said it would give away land.
b. towns in the East Coast were too crowded.
c. they wanted to find gold.
c. they wanted to find gold.
Plains Native Americans got most of what they needed from ______.
a. oxen
b. bison
c. cattle
b. bison
What is a telegraph?
Is a machine that relays messages over long distances by sending signals through wires.
The road that took people west was called the _____.
a. Oregon Trail
b. Rocky Mountains
c. Pony Express
a. Oregon Trail
The forced march of the Cherokee people to Oklahoma is called the _______.
a. Oregon Trail
b. Trail of Tears
c. Erie Canal
b. Trail of Tears