One hundred dollars

15 thousand dollars

15 million dollars

No money was exchanged instead they traded gold for the land

lumber to build houses

plots of land

seeds to grow crops

wagons to travel out west

To test new farming methods out west

To gain control over the land to the west

To force the French to leave North America

To make room for their growing population

It was a quick way to get mail delivered to the people living in the West.

To find new routes for traveling westward.

To provide new jobs for young men who were expert riders.

To map out the area for future development.

It transported people and good across the nation much quicker than ever before.

It paved the ways for the development of the first cars.

It created jobs as workers were needed to lay tracks across the United States

All of the above

To meet and trade with the Native Americans

To explore and map out the land west of the Mississippi River

To pan for gold in the rivers

To map out a trail through the Appalachian Mountains