8th Grade Expansion and Trails Worksheets
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Written by Adi Ackerman, Head Teacher
Roads, trails and mountain passes carried Americans west in the first half of the 1800s. There are 5 sheets for 8th grade here, each with an answer key. The National Road and the Way West reads about the first federal road, Manifest Destiny Timeline marks events from 1845 to 1854, The Sierra Nevada Foothills and the Gold Rush labels a cross section, Map Scale on the Santa Fe Trail measures distances, and Mountain Passes of the West by Elevation graphs seven passes.
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