Vocabulary
Men who looked after large herds of cattle.
What are cowboys?
The purchase of land that President Jefferson bought from France.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
They were the first white people to live in the West.
Who were mountain men?
They made wagons go faster.
What are trails?
Men who made a living trading furs for money.
What are mountain men?
The two people that explored the Louisiana Purchase.
Who are Lewis and Clark?
They watched cattle all day and night.
Who are cowboys?
They were faster than wagons and traveled on water.
What are steamboats?
People who moved to the West to find gold.
What are forty-niners?
We won a war against them to gain more land.
Who is Mexico?
These men moved to California in search of gold.
Who are forty-niners?
The name of the wagon the pioneers used.
What are prairie schooners?
Dirt roads pioneers used to move to the West.
What are trails?
This president purchased land from France.
Who is President Jefferson?
They got rich from selling mining supplies and tents.
Who are store owners?
This was the easiest and fasted way to travel.
What are passenger train?
People who moved to the West to live.
What are pioneers?
Mexico wanted this state back.
What is Texas?
They made their own clothes, candles, and soap.
Who are pioneers?
This is how mountain men traveled west.
What is horseback?