Early Pioneers
This American is famous for clearing a pass through the Appalachian Mountains and leading pioneers into Kentucky.
Who is Daniel Boone?
Tasked by Thomas Jefferson to explore the United States' new purchase from France.
Who are Lewis and Clark?
Allowed American settlers in Texas.
Who is the Mexican government?
Settled in modern day Utah in order to avoid religious persecution.
Who are the Mormons?
Could carry people and goods on rivers both downstream and upstream.
What are steamboats?
Reasons that pioneers were heading west.
What are a new start, new farmland and Manifest Destiny.
Helped to guide Lewis and Clark through unfamiliar territory.
Who is Sacagawea?
This battle represents the conflict between the Texans and the Mexicans.
What is the Alamo?
This territory was important to the United States because of the fur of its animals.
What is Oregon?
Was built to transfer goods from the Great Lakes across New York state to the Hudson River.
What is the Erie Canal?
Bad roads in the 1700.
What is the reason it was hard to travel?
Major landmark seen by Lewis and Clark during their travels.
What are the Rocky Mountains, the Continental Divide and the Pacific Ocean?
Defeated the Mexican army at the Battle of San Jacinto.
Who is Sam Houston?
The distance between the equator and a place north or south of the equator; measured in degrees.
What is latitude?
Did not freeze in the winter, were faster and could travel over mountains.
What are railroads?
Name of the path that lead Daniel Boone to the Cumberland Gap.
What is the Warrior's Path?
Lewis and Clark brought these items to gift to the Native Americans on their travels?
What are fish hooks and needles?
Reasons Sam Houston was able to defeat the Mexican Army.
What are retreating to build and train his army, good planning and surprise?
Territory which became part of the United States by a compromise between the US and Great Britain.
What is Oregon?
A place where travelers can pay to eat and sleep.
What is an inn?
Used by pioneers to travel on the Ohio River to reach the Northwest Territory?
What are flat boats?
Carried by Sacagawea during the Lewis and Clark expedition.
Who is Sacagawea's baby son?
Reason Texas was not immediately admitted to the Untied States.
What is slavery?
Number of people that rushed to California to search for gold.
What is the 80,000?
A railroad engine.
What is a locomotive?