Grade 2 Read-Aloud

206 Westward Expansion: Supplemental Guide DR | Domain Review

 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 fi rst 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)

Note: This activity should be completed in conjunction with the

Westward Expansion Timeline.

Directions: Each picture represents an event during westward

expansion. I will say a sentence about each event and point to

the event on the Timeline. Then I will help you fi nd the picture of

that event on your worksheet. After we have identifi ed each event,

number the events in chronological order. For example, write a

number ‘1’ in the box of the event that happened fi rst. Write a

number ‘6’ in the box of the event that happened last.

1. Robert Fulton invented a steamboat, the Clermont, to travel
   up and down the Hudson River. (1)


2. The opening of the Erie Canal joined the Atlantic Ocean to
   Lake Erie and to the Great Lakes and beyond. (3)