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Westward Expansion
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Boomtown | Towns would spring up almost overnight at places where gold and silver were discovered |
| Expansionism | The belief that a country should acquire land beyond its borders and grow in size. The new territories will be added to that country and usually have resources. |
| Frontier | The edge of settled land where civilization met the wilderness. |
| Ghosttown | A town that was once thriving but was later abandoned when resources ran out or people moved away. |
| Gold Rush | A period when large numbers of people moved to an area where gold had been discovered, hoping to get rich. |
| Great Plains | A vast, mostly flat region of grassland between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains. |
| Homestead | A piece of free land that people claimed from the government. They had to live and work on it for five years to keep it |
| Land Rush | When certain prime areas of land were opened for homesteading, people would race to claim the best plots |
| Manifest Destiny | A belief by Americans in the 1800’s that the United States was destined to expand west all the way to the Pacific Ocean |
| Pioneer | A person who moves to a new, undeveloped area to settle and start a new life. |
| Reservation | A special area of land set aside for Native American tribes to live on and govern themselves |
| Transcontinental Railroad | A railroad that connected the eastern United States to the Pacific Coast, making travel and trade faster and easier. |
| Nomadic | Moving from place to place instead of living in one permanent home |
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