What’s Inside: Students learn about key events, influential figures, significant battles, and maps from Westward Expansion. Each page includes clear informational text designed to build background knowledge, strengthen comprehension, and support note-taking and research skills.

Perfect For:

• Research projects
• Social studies units
• Nonfiction text practice
• Report writing
• Reading comprehension
• Literacy center

This Westward Expansion Informational Text Booklet has 25 chronological events or people related to moving west in America.

1. Daniel Boone

2. Westward Expansion: Northwest Ordinance

3. Westward Expansion: Louisiana Purchase

4. Lewis and Clark- Thomas Jefferson

5. Sacagawea

6. Seminole Wars

7. Acquisition of Florida

8. Santa Fe Trail

9. Indian Removal Act

10. Battle of the Alamo

11. Trail of Tears

12. Oregon Trail

13. Manifest Destiny

14. California Trail

15. Annexation of Texas

16. Mormons (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)

17. Mormon Trail

18. Oregon Treaty

19. Oregon Fever

20. Mexican Cession

21. Gold Rush

22. Gadsden Purchase

23. Pony Express

24. Telegraph

25. Pacific Railroad Act

Printing:

Version 1- The pages are in number order. Print, cut and staple.

Version 2- The pages are made for printing front/back and then fold in half.

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