A SECRET SYSTEM used to help ENSLAVED people escape.
Oops!
Check
Okay!
Check
15
Telegraph
A COMMUNICATION system that sent messages across ELECTRIC WIRES. Sent and received messages through TAPPING sounds in code.
Oops!
Check
Okay!
Check
15
Plantations
A very large FARM where enslaved people did all the hard LABOR. Mostly found in the South where COTTON, tobacco, SUGAR, and rice were important CROPS.
Oops!
Check
Okay!
Check
15
Missouri River
A landform that BORDERS NE and Iowa. Early NE TOWNS were near to make TRANSPORTATION easier for shipping necessities.
Oops!
Check
Okay!
Check
15
Pioneers
People that TRAVEL to unknown or unfamiliar TERRITORIES In NE, they were the first group of people to HEAD west.
Oops!
Check
Okay!
Check
15
Wagon train
A way of TRAVELING on the trails west in a large group. When one FOLLOWED another and traveled together, I was known for this.
Oops!
Check
Okay!
Check
lifesaver
Give 10 points!
Oops!
gift
Win 20 points!
Okay!
shark
Other team loses 10 points!
Okay!
lifesaver
Give 25 points!
Oops!
thief
Give points!
5
10
15
20
25
gift
Win 25 points!
Okay!
gift
Win 20 points!
Okay!
banana
Go to last place!
Oops!
thief
Give points!
5
10
15
20
25
seesaw
Swap points!
Okay!
gift
Win 25 points!
Okay!
baam
Lose 20 points!
Oops!
15
Pony express
A FREIGHT system that carried MAIL on horseback. Riders delivered mail from station to station across the WEST, taking 2 weeks to travel from coast to coast.
Oops!
Check
Okay!
Check
baam
Lose 25 points!
Oops!
gold
Win 50 points!
Okay!
gift
Win 15 points!
Okay!
lifesaver
Give 25 points!
Oops!
15
Transportation
A way to CARRY people and supplies from one place to another. Three examples of this are COVERED WAGONS, RAILROADS, and STAGECOACHES.
Oops!
Check
Okay!
Check
15
Slavery
The practice of OWNING another person like PROPERTY Many people in slavery had NO FREEDOM and most were not allowed to READ, write, have MEETINGS, or get paid f
Oops!
Check
Okay!
Check
15
Civil War
A war where people from the SAME country fight against each other. The SOUTH fought for slavery against the NORTH that didn’t allow slavery.
Oops!
Check
Okay!
Check
15
Territory
An AREA of LAND ruled by the national GOVERNMENT. NE became one when the Kansas-Nebraska Act was signed.
Oops!
Check
Okay!
Check
15
Platte River
A LANDFORM that the pioneers on the Oregon and Mormon Trails FOLLOWED while traveling through NE.