Western Expansion

Why do immigrants come to the United States?

• gold and a better life

• free land

• to see their friends

• to go on a voyage

Canal

• river

• a man-made waterway

• wagon train

• Eerie

The steam locomotive nickname given to the first trains in America.

• Erie Canal

• Iron Horse

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Wagon Train

Invented the steamboat.

• Robert Fulton

• Sequoyah

• Thomas Jefferson

• Lewis and Clark

to make something new

• transport

• venture

• interact

• create

Voyage

• a trip by boat

• a trip by plane

• a trip by bus

• a trip by car

A person sent ahead of a traveling group to gather information about what lies ahead is called a _____.

• cowboy

• scout

• pioneer

• inventor

Settled

• traveling from one place to another

• transport

• interacting

• to move to a new place and make it your home