Westward Expansion Chapter 10 5th grade

A law that gave settlers 160 acres of land for $18.00

• Indian Removal Act

• Manifest Destiny

• Homestead Act

• Sugar Act

an area of land to which Native Americans were forced onto

• Soddies

• Tepees

• Reservations

• frontier

a belief that the United States should keep expanding west to the Pacific Ocean

• Homestead Act

• Manifest Destiny

• Transcontinental Railroad

an early settler

• prospector

• explorer

• pioneer

A time when many miners moved West

• Gold Rush

• Oregon Trail

• Manifest Destiny

• Homesteaders

A long period without rain

• gold rush

• blizzard

• famine

• drought

What is a sodbuster?

• someone who looks for gold

• someone who build homes from sod

• someone who took the railroad west

Many of the workers on the transcontinental railroad were

• Southern laborers

• African Americans

• Native Americans

• Chinese Immigrants

Transported cattle faster from the Great Plains to the cities in the East

• cattle drives

• trucks

• airports

• railroad

The Transcontinental Railroad in the early years

• brought water to farms

• developed the west more quickly

• fueled the gold rush

• helped the US to sell textiles to other countries