Westward Expansion Vocabulary

_________ are difficult situations that cause discomfort or

suffering.

• sympathy

• hardships

The people who first settled in new areas of the frontier called

__________.

• pioneers

• ancestors

_____________ refers to how we move people or

things from one place to another?

• communicate

• transport

When you move to a new place and make it your

home, it is called ___________.

• charged

• settled

A __________ is a region or area of land.

• territory

• route

The word _________ means to tell someone

something.

• transport

• communicate

A _________ the a way we get from one place to another.

• skill

• route

A ______________ is a group of wagons headed west.

• territroy

• wagon train

A _______ is a waterway used to move things from place to place using

boats.

• canal

• route

___________ are objects or structures on land that are easy to recognize.

• landmarks

• inventors