Transportation/
Communication
Communication
Impact on Native Americans
The Gold Rush
Vocabulary
Geography
100
This was a method of communication where boys on ponies would travel across the United States to deliver letters.
What is the Pony Express?
100
The 800-mile long trail the Cherokee tribe was forced to walk, mostly on foot.
What is the Trail of Tears?
100
Towns that were abandoned after the gold rush are called this.
What are ghost towns?
100
The land that is between settled and unsettled territory.
What is a frontier?
100
A is...
What is land already owned by the United States?
200
The railroad that traveled across the United States.
Transcontinental Railroad
200
Soon after Western Expansion, Native American children were forced into THESE in hopes that they would forget their culture.
What are boarding schools?
200
Towns where populations expanded extremely quickly due to the hope of gold.
What are boom towns?
200
These are the tiny strips of undesired land Native Americans were forced onto by the United States government.
What are reservations?
200
B is...
What is the Louisiana Purchase/land bought from France?
300
This was a manmade river that made transportation across NY easier.
What is the Erie Canal?
300
Andrew Jackson passed this act, which forced Native Americans off their native lands and onto reservations.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
300
The Gold Rush took place mainly in this state.
What is California?
300
This is the word for the men who mined for gold during the Gold Rush.
What are prospectors?
300
C is...
What is Oregon Country/land gained from England?
400
The type of power for locomotives and boats that was utilized during western expansion.
What is steam power?
400
This tribe went to court to sue the United States for forcing them to leave their land and won.
What is the Cherokee tribe?
400
This group of people often got richer than the gold miners.
What are general store owners?
400
Lewis and Clark went on THIS type of journey to explore the Louisiana Territory.
What is an expedition?
400
D is...
Land gained from Mexico in the Mexico-American War.
500
The belief that the United States was fated to go west to the Pacific Ocean.
What is Manifest Destiny?