Unit 7: The Nation Grows

The movement of large herds of cattle, by cowboys, from ranches to the railroad.  

• homesteader
• cattle drive
• poverty
• slum

A railroad that crosses a continent

• transcontinental railroad
• reservation
• labor union
• corporation

A person who claimed land on the Great Plains under the Homestead Act of 1862.

• exoduster
• homesteader
• slum
• poverty

An African American from the South who went to Kansas in the 1870s

• corporation
• property right 
• monopoly
• exoduster

The condition of being poor.

• slum
• poverty
• strike
• tenement

The rights to own or use something.

• tenement 
• property rights
• monopoly 
• reservation

Territories set aside for Native Americans.

• labor union 
• commute
• homesteader
• reservation

A form of business in which holders of shares of stock are the owners of the business.

• monopoly
• coporation
• tentament
• strike