Westward Expansion Pausing Point

I designed a steamboat that allowed people and goods to be carried faster along rivers and canals such as the Erie Canal. Who am I?

• Sequoyah

• Robert Fulton

• Robert Livingston

• Mrs. Morgan

I am Robert Fulton's financial partner who helped him create a faster steamboat for canal transportation. Who am I?

• Robert Livingston

• Sequoyah

• Andrew Jackson

• Mr. Morgan

I am a waterway that was built during the 1800s to join the Hudson River in New York to Lake Erie, one of the Great Lakes. I am the most famous of the canals built during the Canal Era. What am I?

• The Trail of Tears

• The Hudson River

• Erie Canal

• The Oregon Trail

I invented a Cherokee writing system to preserve my people's customs and culture. Who am I?

• Andrew Jackson

• Mrs. Morgan

• Sequoyah

• Ayoka (Sequoyah's daughter)

I am the forced march of the Cherokee from Georgia to Oklahoma. What am I called?

• The Oregon Trail

• the Erie Canal

• the Trail of Tears

• the Indian Territory

During the westward expansion, freight traveled on flatboats on the Erie Canal from Albany to Buffalo

• Yes

• No