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T: Going West

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• __________ to other steamboats
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• helped transport ________ and goods along the _________ systems and out ______

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T: Mr. Fulton’s Journey

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T: The Journal of a Twelve-Year Old on the Erie Canal

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• created a __________ language for the _________________
• felt a written language would make the ______________ stronger
• used ________ symbols to represent the ___________ in the Cherokee language

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T: The Trail of Tears

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• a specific section of _________ that belongs to a government but is not yet an official __________

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• the East was too _____________
• __________ land in the West
• _____________ of starting a new life

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T: Westward on the Oregon Trail

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• objects or structures on land that are easy to see and ______________

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• a way to get from one _______ to another

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• used horses and riders to deliver __________ out West
• _________ than the Post Office
• lasted _________ months
• replaced by the _________________

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• railroad that connected the _______ to the ______
• made it _________ to transport people and ________ across the country

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T: Working on the Transcontinental Railroad

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• ______ bison due to ____________ killing and _________ them
• _______ tracks built through land

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T: The Buffalo Hunters