Trails
This trail was cut by Daniel Boone
What is the Wilderness Trail?
This gap was cut open for American colonists and early American citizens in the Wilderness Trail.
What is the Cumberland Gap?
Jedediah Smith mapped these mountains.
What are the Rocky Mountains?
This U.S. President had a dream to stretch the country to the Pacific Ocean.
Who is President Jefferson?
This person traveled the Wilderness Path when she was a little girl, and then traveled the California Trail when she was an elderly lady.
Who is Sarah Keys?
This trail was a trade route and was begun by a merchant in Missouri.
What is the Santa Fe Trail
This trail cut south before the Rocky Mountains so it didn't need to get across the mountains.
What is the Santa Fe trail?
These mountains were a natural barrier for the first American colonies on the east coast for many years until 1775.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
This was the first European country to claim the Louisiana Territory.
Who is Spain?
This is what we call the long divide where water on the west flows to the Pacific and water on the right flows to the Atlantic.
What is the Continental Divide?
This trail was an expedition ordered by President Thomas Jefferson
What is the Lewis and Clark expedition?
The California and Oregon Trails would not have been possible without this twenty mile wide low point in the Rocky Mountains.
What is the South Pass?
The Donner Party is worried about getting across these mountains before the snow falls.
What are the Sierra-Nevada Mountains?
Jefferson purchased the Louisiana Territory from this Country.
Who is France?
This landmark could be seen by wagon trains from 40 miles away.
What is Chimney Rock?
This is the trail the Donner Party traveled.
What is the California Trail?
This pass was first discovered by a fur trader named Robert Stuart in 1812, but was forgotten due to the War of 1812.
What is the South Pass?
These mountains have a gap through them in the southeastern part of the United States below Virginia.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
This leader of France forced Spain to give him the Louisiana Territory.
Who is Napoleon?
This landmark was a popular camping spot where emigrants carved their names in the rock.
What is Independence Rock?
This trail led to Kentucky.
What is the Wilderness Trail
This pass was discovered again by Jedediah Smith in 1824.
What is the South Pass?
These mountains divide the United States into two distinct water sheds.
What are the Rocky Mountains?
The first expedition from Missouri to the Pacific Ocean and back took how many years?
What is two years? (1804-1806)
This landmark was named for the male emigrant who was very ill and was left to die there.
What is Scott's Bluff?