Westward Expansion and Vocabulary Review

Law passed by England that attempted to restrict colonists and prevent them from moving westward.

• Proclamation of 1763

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Oregon Trail

• Pioneers

Passage way through the Appalachian Mountains from Virginia to Kentucky & Tennessee

• Lone Star Republic

• Oregon Trail

• Cumberland Gap

• Wilderness Road

Pioneer trail that ran through the Appalachian Mountains and connected eastern Tennessee to Louisville, Kentucky.

• New Mexico Terratory

• Oregon Trail

• Cumberland Gap

• Wilderness Road

Factors that forced people away from their homes in search of a better life

• Missionaries

• Push Factor

• Pull Factor

• Cede

Factors that attract settlers to put down roots in certain locations.

• Pull Factor

• Push Factor

• Mormons

• Forty-Niners

A large covered wagon used for transporting pioneers and freight across America during early westward expansion.

• Mountain Men

• Persecution

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Conestoga Wagon

A line or train of wagons traveling cross country.

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Wagon Train

• Conestoga Wagon

• Oregon Trail

Railroad that built during the Civil War that connected the industrial east with the west coast.

• Rendezvous

• Wagon Train

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Conestoga Wagon

Strong desire for Americans to move to Oregon in the 1840s

• Oregon Fever

• Indian Removal Act

• Wagon Trains

• Pull Factor

First group to make it to Oregon and they went in search of beaver fur. They explored and mapped much of the west.

• Mountain Men

• Missionaries

• Pioneers

• Forty-Niners