Westward Expansion

The famous route that the pioneers took west was the

• Oregon Trail

• Trail of Tears

• Erie Trail

The Transcontinental Railroad was built to connect the

• East to the West

• North the South

• East to North

What canal was dug to connect the Hudson River to Lake Erie

• Hudson Canal

• New York Canal

• Erie Canal

What was the Pony Express

• A way to get mail to the West

• A way to travel West

• A very fast train

The Pony Express was ended by the invention of the

• car

• telegraph

• email

Another name for train on the Transcontinental Railroad was

• Copper Train

• Iron Horse

• Old Steamy

Robert Fulton invented the

• telegraph

• wagon

• steam engine

The walk the Cherokee Indians took when they were forced to move west was callled

• Long Walk West

• Trail of Tears

• Oregon Trail

Sequoyah invented

• The Cherokee Alphabet

• the steamboat

• the railroad

Name two dangers pioneers faced as they moved west.

• starvation, sickness, death, falling down a cliff, Native Americans

• gold, land, opportunity, buffalo