MOVING WEST - CHAPTER 8
Lesson 1
Inventions, Roads, and Railroads
Vocabulary: profit, mass production, Industrial Revolution, canal
- New ideas and inventions helped businesses make profits.
- New roads and canals, along with the invention of the steamboat, moved settlers and goods more quickly and cheaply to the west.
- Railroads, although expensive to build, brought benefits in speed and cost.
Lesson 2
The Lone Star State
Vocabulary:
vaquero, annex, Missouri Compromise, manifest destiny
- In the 1830's many Americans settled in Texas to farm and ranch.
- In 1836,
Texans declared and won independence from Mexico. - American annexation of Texas led to the Mexican War. The treaty ending the war gave all of northern Mexico to the United States.
Lesson 3
Trails to the West
Vocabulary: wagon train, prairie schooner, persecution
- In the 1840's, thousand of settlers headed west in covered wagons.
- The pioneers mainly followed the Oregon Trail, the Mormon Trail, and the California Trail across the Great Plains and the Rocky Mountains.
- Traders used the Sante Fe Trail and the Old Spanish Trail to move cargo.
Lesson 4
The California Gold Rush
The California Gold Rush
Vocabulary:
gold rush, entrepreneur, discrimination, Pony Express
- The discovery of gold in California in 1848 set off a huge gold rush.
- Miners used pans, sluices, picks, and other tools to find gold.
- Entrepreneurs made big profits selling goods and services to
miners . - California's population grew. It became a state in 1850.
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