Americans Move West

What animal supplied most of the needs of the Plains Indians?

• chicken

• pig

• buffalo

• horses

The march of the Cherokee people to Oklahoma is called the ____.

• Oregon Trail

• Wilderness Road

• Trail of the West

• Trail of Tears

The Erie Canal connects Lake Erie with the _____.

• Hudson River

• Mississippi River

• Great Lakes

• Pacific Ocean

People rushed to California because ___.

• they wanted to find gold

• the government was giving away free land

• towns in the east were too crowded

• they loved adventure

The train was nicknamed ____.

• the Telegraph

• the Iron Horse

• Thomas (the train)

• the Steam Train

The horse and rider relay to deliver mail across the US was called the ___.

• Pony Express

• cattle drive

• Trail of Tears

• telegraph

What put the Pony Express out of business?

• the gold rush

• the Trail of Tears

• the telegraph

• the Native Americans

Which boat could not go upstream?

• keelboat

• steamboat

• sailboat

• flatboat

Daniel Boone and some mountain men created a path that led through the Appalachian Mountains called the ___.

• Trail of Tears

• Yellow Brick Road

• Wilderness Road

• Underground Railroad

Which of these were NOT how settlers moved west?

• hiking along trails or on horses

• moving vans

• covered wagons pulled by oxen

• on rivers