Timeline Jumble
Description:
A “Timeline Jumble” where students arrange events of the Westward
Expansion in chronological order
Instructions:
Call out the events below (in random order) and have students copy them onto
note cards. Students must place the events in chronological order.
Timeline Jumble
Call out the events (in random order) and your students write them onto note
cards. They must put the events into chronological order (as shown below)
Lewis & Clark
Expedition
Missouri
Compromise
divides nation
over slavery
First
locomotives
begin
running
First
emigrants
travel the
Oregon Trail
Mormons
begin to
settle in Salt
Lake City, UT
Gold
discovered at
Sutter’s Mill
in California
Gold Rush
begins
Issue of
slavery in West
leads to “Bloody
Kansas”
North &
South fight in
the Civil War
Completion of
the
End of the
Louisiana
Purchase
doubles size
of nation
Transcontinental
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Railroad
Reconstruction
Era