Across
- 2. This is how many goods and money a country has
- 4. The idea that America was destined to expand from coast to coast
- 5. Someone who creates new ideas or develops new methods; someone who is one of the first to live in a new place (see Oregon Trail Flocabulary)
- 7. This is a town where cattle were sold and held
- 9. This is what many pioneers used for fuel to start a fire
- 12. A person who goes to a foreign place to do religious work (see Oregon Trail Flocabulary)
- 13. Consistent bad treatment of people in a specific racial, ethnic, or cultural group; the condition of being treated this way (see Oregon Trail Flocabulary)
- 15. This is a factor that forces someone to leave their home
- 17. a place in a rural or unsettled area that is used for buying, selling or exchanging goods.(see Oregon Trail Flocabulary)
- 18. This is a factor in which makes someone want to move to a new place
- 21. This type of gold was thin-shaven, and very small
- 22. Moving from one region/state in the same country into another region/state
- 24. This is the state the Oregon Trail led to
- 25. This was a tool used to help pan for gold
- 26. The mass of America that is to the right of the center of the US
- 27. This was a popular "vehicle" used for transportation on the Oregon Trail
Down
- 1. Moving from one country into another
- 3. This railroad reduced the travel on the Oregon Trail from 6 months to 1 week
- 6. This Act allowed people the chance to buy land out West in 1862
- 8. This is the pathway many pioneers took to get to California or Oregon
- 10. This was a type of mining that included high-pressured water systems moving rock
- 11. This was an event where many people came to California in search of gold
- 14. This was a large chunk of gold
- 16. This is a person living in the West that is similar to a cowboy. They worked with cattle
- 19. This is the state where the Gold Rush happened
- 20. This is a time period in the late 1800's-early 1900's
- 23. The mass of America that is to the left of the center of the US
