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for the blanks:
(See the word bank at the bottom of 4 -19.)
The Pictures:
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Tips
for completing the map:
Students should work from the finished map shown on the Internet support site or from our overhead transparency map collection. Emphasize neatness from the beginning! This map shows some of the most famous roads that took Americans to the Far West during the first half of the 19th century. Remind students that it does not show all the trails of the period. Students should draw each route very lightly at first, and check carefully to be sure they have it in the right position. Then they can go over the route again to darken the color and make it more visible. All of the routes on this map should be drawn with a red color pencil. It is best to label them with a regular # 2 pencil, however, since color pencils are not very good for lettering. (Red pens are fine for lettering, but of course, a mistake cannot be erased.) Next, have students color the gold region with a yellow color pencil. The area is indicated with an oval just east of Sacramento. Students should also color the rivers and the Great
Lakes with a blue pencil. If time permits, the Atlantic Ocean and
Gulf of Mexico can also be shaded lightly.
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Indian teepees on the Great Plains. These dwellings were made of
buffalo hides over poles. They could be easily taken apart and carried
to new locations.
A covered wagon, often called a Conestoga wagon because they were first
built in Conestoga, Pennsylvania. The version used to take settlers
to the Far West, however, was built smaller and lighter.