Westward Expansion

to absorb into another culture

• ascend

• melt

• assimilate

• blend

transcontinental

• across the country

• between states

• big continent

• across the state

An invention that helped homesteaders get water out of the ground

• thermometer

• steel plow

• rain dance

• windmill

An adaptation that helped farmers grow wheat on the Great Plains

• dry farming

• wet farming

• rotation of crops

• rain dance

Ranchers used ___________ to keep livestock from wandering off.

• bells

• electric fence

• barbed wire

• plows

Many locations across the nation to sell products and/or services

• Railroad

• Assimilate

• Chain

• National Market

A farming machine that helped homesteaders dig rows in the soil

• shovel

• windmill

• rainmaker

• steel plow

What is a place where cowboys would take their cattle to be shipped around the country?

• cow towns

• ghost towns

• boom towns

• small town

People that left the east and travelled west to find a better life

• Native Americans

• Pioneers

• Homesteaders

• Freedmen

What precious metals did the miners worked to dig out?

• diamonds, copper, gold

• copper, silver, gold, iron

• gold, diamonds, iron

• coal, iron, gold