Westward Expansion

The Erie Canal connects Lake Erie with the

• Great Lakes

• Hudson River

• Mississippi River

Daniel Boon explored a trail though the

• South Pass

• Rocky Mountains

• Appalachian Mountains

Robert Fulton developed the

• steamboat

• railroad

• telephone

People rushed to California because

• that was the only place the trains stopped

• everything was free there

• they wanted to find gold

The road that took people west was called the

• Oregon Trail

• Rocky Mountains

• Pony Express

The Pony Express was

• a new way of training horses

• a fast way of sending mail

• what people called the railroad

A person who trains horses and herds cattle is called a

• rodeo

• reservation

• cowboy

The Cherokee people were taught to read and write by

• Daniel Boone

• Sequoyah

• Robert Fulton

The animal that supplied most of the needs of the Plains Indians was the

• pig

• buffalo

• chicken

The march of the Cherokee people to Oklahoma is called the

• Oregon Trail

• Trail of Tears

• Erie Canal