Westward Expansion

I am the route between Missouri and the Oregon Territory that was traveled by settlers moving West.

• Indian Territory

• The Oregon Trail

• Pony Express

I am the system created to send mail on horseback to the settlers in the West.

• The Oregon Trail

• Indian territory

• Pony Express

I am the animal that the Lakota people used as a source of life.

• Iron Horse

• Steamboat

• Buffalo

These are the forms of transportation pioneers used to travel west.

• horses, covered wagons, steamboats, trains

• horses, bikes, boats, trucks

• cars, planes, trains

I am the nickname given to the first trains in America

• Steamboat

• Sequoyah

• Iron Horse

I am the railroad that connects the East to the West.

• The Pony Express

• Transcontinential Railroad

• Steamboats

Why did settlers move out to the West?

• To have a better life and more land

• To travel and see what's out there

• To find and eat the buffalo

Why did the Pony Express stop being a good way to get letters?

• the invention of the telephone

• the invention of the internet

• the invention of the telegraph

What was Sequoyah's important creation?

• Sequoyah created English letters

• Sequoyah created Cherokee Writing

• Sequoyah created the internet

What was Robert Fulton's important invention?

• The Pony Express

• The Iron Horse

• The Steamboat