Westward Movement Part 1 Vocabualry

What is the Homestead Act of 1862?

• A settler on the Great Plains who had to “bust” through thick sod to plant crops

• One who claimed land on the Great Plains

• Houses made of sod

• A name given to freedmen who migrated to Kansas from the South

• The act that gave 160 acres of public land to adult men 21 years of age

What is a Cattle Drive?

• Any town on a railroad line where a cattle drive usually ends

• A man who herds and tends cattle on a ranch, who goes about his work on horseback

• Entire towns developed for cowboys passing through

• A cattle trail from San Antonio, Texas to Abilene, Kansas

• A long journey taken by cowboys to herd, or drive, cattle from ranches in Texas, north on trials leading to railroads

What is an exoduster?

• A settler on the Great Plains who had to “bust” through thick sod to plant crops

• One who claimed land on the Great Plains

• Houses made of sod

• A name given to freedmen who migrated to Kansas from the South

• The act that gave 160 acres of public land to adult men 21 years of age

What is a stock yard?

• Any town on a railroad line where a cattle drive usually ends

• A man who herds and tends cattle on a ranch, who goes about his work on horseback

• Entire towns developed for cowboys passing through

• A cattle trail from San Antonio, Texas to Abilene, Kansas

• A cattle pen

What is a sodbuster?

• A settler on the Great Plains who had to “bust” through thick sod to plant crops

• One who claimed land on the Great Plains

• Houses made of sod

• A name given to freedmen who migrated to Kansas from the South

• The act that gave 160 acres of public land to adult men 21 years of age

What is a homesteader?

• A settler on the Great Plains who had to “bust” through thick sod to plant crops

• One who claimed land on the Great Plains

• An 1800s belief that Americans have the right to spread across the country

• A name given to freedmen who migrated to Kansas from the South

• The act that gave 160 acres of public land to adult men 21 years of age

What is a Cowtown?

• Any town on a railroad line where a cattle drive usually ends

• A man who herds and tends cattle on a ranch, who goes about his work on horseback

• Entire towns developed for cowboys passing through

• A cattle trail from San Antonio, Texas to Abilene, Kansas

• A cattle pen

What is Manifest Destiny?

• A settler on the Great Plains who had to “bust” through thick sod to plant crops

• One who claimed land on the Great Plains

• An 1800s belief that Americans have the right to spread across the country

• A name given to freedmen who migrated to Kansas from the South

• The act that gave 160 acres of public land to adult men 21 years of age

What is the Chisholm Trail?

• Any town on a railroad line where a cattle drive usually ends

• A man who herds and tends cattle on a ranch, who goes about his work on horseback

• Entire towns developed for cowboys passing through

• A cattle trail from San Antonio, Texas to Abilene, Kansas

• A cattle pen

What is a soddie?

• A settler on the Great Plains who had to “bust” through thick sod to plant crops

• One who claimed land on the Great Plains

• Houses made of sod

• A name given to freedmen who migrated to Kansas from the South

• The act that gave 160 acres of public land to adult men 21 years of age