Westward Expansion

What do you call a person who traveled West in the 1800's?

• Native American

• Indian

• villager

• pioneer

I am a group of wagons traveling West.

• pioneers

• wagon train

• wagons

• Native Americans

The pioneers ______ in a new home out West.

• settled

• left

• came

• sleep

Mr. Fulton and Mr. Livingston invented a ______.

• flatboat

• steamboat

• boat

• wagon

The steamboat was ______ than a regular flatboat by 2 days.

• faster

• slower

______ was loaded up on a flatboat to transport from one place to another.

• people

• oxen

• mules

• freight

The _____ pulled the flatboats along the Erie Canal.

• oxen and mules

• cows and pigs

• oxen and dogs

• horses and donkeys

What were some hardships that the pioneers experienced when moving west?

• good weather and friends

• bad weather and sickness

• good food and friends

_______ were forced out of their homes to move west. This was known as the Trail of Tears.

• government leaders

• The Cherokee

• white people

All of the Cherokee people made it safely during the Trail of Tears.

• True

• False