Grade 5 - Unit 6 Part 1 vocab

When many people hurry to a place that has gold in the soil or river.

• gold rush

• ranching

• reservation

• expansion

The process of building something

• construction

• individual

• expansion

• frontier

To put a person or thing in a successful position

• establish

• settler

• ranching

• explore

A place where few or no people live

• frontier

• expansion

• reservation

• establish

To look around a new place trying to find something

• explore

• settler

• frontier

• expansion

When something gets bigger

• expansion

• explore

• establish

• construction

A piece of land set apart for a special purpose, as for the use of an Indian tribe.

• reservation

• settler

• frontier

• ranching

Someone who moves to a new area to live

• settler

• frontier

• reservation

• construction

A person

• individual

• establish

• reservation

• settler

The business of raising animals (usually cows) on a ranch to be sold for their meat

• ranching

• construction

• expansion

• explore