Westward Expansion

things or places seen or worth seeing

• sights

• wagon trains

• steamboats

• transport

a line or caravan of wagons

• wagon train

• voyage

• transport

• create

steam-powered boats, invented by Robert Fulton

• wagon train

• steamboats

• transport

• create

a long trip, usually to a place that is either far away or is not well-known by the traveler

• encountered

• hardships

• voyage

• territory

a 363 mile long, man-made waterway created during the early 1800s to join the Hudson River and Lake Erie in New York State

• voyage

• endurance

• landmarks

• Erie Canal

to carry or move from one place to another

• transport

• create

• landmarks

• route

to make or produce something new

• sights

• create

• convenient

• territory

met someone or something unexpectedly

• miserable

• hardships

• landmarks

• encountered

extremely unpleasant or uncomfortable

• miserable

• endurance

• convenient

• sights

difficult conditions or situations that make someone uncomfortable or cause harm

• convenient

• endurance

• route

• hardships