Chapter 10 vocabulary pt 1

To take territory and join it to a state or country

• Cattle drive
• Dry farming
• Homestead Act
• Annex

a long journey on which cowboys guide cattle to market

• Dry farming
• Homestead Act
• Cattle drive
• Irrigation

a long period with out rain

• Drought
• Homestead Act
• Cattle drive
• Irrigation

a method of farming that conserves moisture in the soil during dry weather

• Drought
• Homestead Act
• Dry Farming
• Irrigation

the quick movement of people to a place where gold has been discovered

• Drought
• Gold Rush
• Dry Farming
• Irrigation

a law passed in 1862, in which the U.S. government promised settlers 160 acres of land for $18

• Homestead Act
• Gold Rush
• Dry Farming
• Irrigation

a person who migrated to the West to take advantage of the Homestead Act

• Gold Rush
• Isthmus
• Homesteader
• Irrigation

a method of moving what from a source to where it is needed, such as for watering crops

• Gold Rush
• Isthmus
• Homesteader
• Irrigation

a narrow strip of land connecting two landmasses

• Gold Rush
• Isthmus
• Homesteader
• Irrigation

the belief that the United States had the right to add territory until it reached the Pacific Ocean

• Manifest Destiny

• Isthmus

• Homesteader

• Irrigation