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Ch. 5 Lesson 2-3
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Always on the move. | nomatic |
| towns or villages in Spanish. | pueblos |
| Catholic based communities in the west | missions |
| a region just beyond the edgew of a settled area | frontier |
| The idea that it was the right of Americans to expand the westward expansion to the Pacific OceaN | Manifest Destiny |
| to declare ownership of an area | annexed |
| a particular animal or plant that no longer exists | extinct |
| an area of land that has been sat aside for Native Americans | reservations |
| a member of the Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints | Mormons |
| the southern Great Plains during the severe drought of the 1930's | Dust Bowl |
| the fertile soil that crops depend on to grow | topsoil |
| an industry based on huge farms that rely on machines and mass-production | agribusiness |
| the industry that makes vehicles that travel in the air or on the ground | aerospace |