Tell It Again! Read-Aloud Anthology - EngageNY

Identify the Pony Express as a horseback mail delivery system
Identify steamboats, canals, and trains as new means of travel
that increased the movement of people west
Identify the transcontinental railroad as a link between the East
and the West
Identify “iron horse” as the nickname given to the first trains in
America
Explain the advantages of rail travel
Explain that the development of the railroad ushered in a new
era of mass exodus of the Native Americans from their land
Demonstrate familiarity with the song “I’ve Been Working on the
Railroad”
Describe the effect of diminishing buffalo on the life of Plains
Native Americans
Explain that the U.S. government forced Native Americans from
their lands
Explain that westward expansion meant displacement of Native
Americans
Review Activities
Domain Review (Instructional Master DR-1)
Directions: Put a number next to the picture that corresponds with
each sentence. [Afterward, if time permits, have students cut out
the pictures and glue or tape them onto a piece of paper in the
order the events happened in history.]
1. Robert Fulton invented a steamboat, the Clermont, to travel
up and down the Hudson River. (1807)
2. The opening of the Erie Canal joined the Atlantic Ocean to
Lake Erie and to the Great Lakes and beyond. (1825)
3. The Union Pacific and the Central Pacific joined their tracks at
Promontory Point, Utah, to form the transcontinental railroad.
(1869)
144 Westward Expansion DR | Domain Review
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