Frontier Discoveries

5. A great movement of people to a new land.
7. Wide, grassy plains in American Midwest that pioneers crossed while traveling west.
10. Nickname for the wagons used by pioneers on the Oregon Trail.
12. Often fatal illness caused by Cholera that killed many pioneers travelling to the West.
13. Geographer’s term for why people go to a place; safety, opportunity, fresh start, etc.
14. Law that established how a territory can become a state.
15. Unsettled, wilderness region where pioneers claimed land.

1. Nickname for pioneers who headed West for the California Gold Rush in 1849.
2. Large state that was an independent republic after rebelling against Mexico.
3. Large West Coast state gained by the U.S. after winning the Mexican-American War.
4. Geographer’s term for why people leave a place; lack of opportunity, danger, prejudice, etc.
6. The first settlers to a frontier region.
8. Idea that America had a God-given mission to settle North America.
9. More than two-thousand-mile-long trail that led west to the Oregon Territory.
11. The original inhabitants of a land such as Native Americans.