The Time Was Right Cobblestone

The three ways people traveled to California were:

• foot, boat, wagon

• Trains, boat, wagon

• wagon, boots, trails

• Trails, boat, wagon

The shortest route to California was

• through the Rocky Mountains

• through Panama

• through the Missouri river

• over the Great Plains

The article mentions traveling to California:

Reorder: which happened first, second and third.

• traveled from New York

• through the Panama jungle

• to Central America

The Panama Canal was

• completed in 1914

• closed in 1918

• celebrated in 1920

• cleaned only once

A lot of travelers became sick from ​ (a)   or ​ (b)   diseases.

• tropical
• waterborne
• seasonal

Once travelers were through Panama they still had to get on a ship to THIS city

During California's statehood, surveys that were completed were

• west of the Missouri River to the Atlantic Ocean

• west of the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean

• not accurate after 1853

• fought over in Congress

Reorder the following statehood:

• The South wanted slavery in new western lands

• acquired in 1848

• For decades,

• North wanted slavery

• confined in the South

Southerners & northerners supported a railroad. With railroads, land would become more ______.

The railroad should go through the South

• is what southerners did not want

• is what southerners wanted

• is what Abe Lincoln suggested

• is what northerners wanted