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THE RUGGED FRONTIER
THE WILDERNESS ROAD
THE OREGON TRAIL
MANIFEST DESTINY
ANNEXING TEXAS
100

Many trappers flocked to the extreme western lands looking for

economic opportunity

100

Popular overland trail that many settlers traveled on in the late 1700s. 

Wilderness Road

100

This made it easier and cheaper to get part of the way west

canals, steamboats, and railroads

100

He ran for president with a promise to expand the US westward

James K. Polk

100

Texas was a part of what country before its independence

Mexico

200
Men, women, and children gave up the safety of home in order to find
their dream of a better life
200

A pass in the Appalachian Mt where Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia meet

Cumberland Gap

200

While some moved to the West to find more natural resources to use to earn money many left for 

the adventure on the frontier

200

Many Americans believed it was America's natural right given to the nation by_______to expand

GOD

200

U.S. govt was not willing to admit Texas as a part of the United States why

Mexico would declare war against the United States

300

what physical gateway helped pioneers reach Missouri

rivers and canals

300

Between 1760 and 1850 how many people passed through the Cumberland Gap

approximately 300,000

300

By 1844 how many settlers had made it to Oregon

about 5,000

300
The belief that the U.S. should stretch from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean

Manifest Destiny

300

United States did not want to admit Texas to the Union why

it would be a slave state and would upset the balance between slave states and free states

400

A gateway for pioneers traveling to the Oregon Territory

The Great Plains

400

What man cut the trail that became known as the Wilderness Road

Daniel Boone

400

True or False 

Ohio River is a Man made river

False

400

Americans believed that American Indians like the west were

"uncivilized", wild, had no rules or government

400

This state was known as a nation all by itself

What is Texas

500

Barrier obstacles that settlers, frontiersmen, and pioneers had to overcome during westward expansion

Appalachian Mountain and Rocky Mountains

500

Settlers crossed the Appalachian Mt through the Cumberland Gap as they migrated to new lands in the

west
500

True or False

The Rocky Mt is a natural feature

True

500

Manifest Destiny was a popular topic in ________

all over the country

political speeches and newspaper

500

This word means to add

what is annex