Westward Expansion Vocab

​ (a)   A Western community that grew quickly because of the mining boom and often disappeared when the boom ended.​ ​

• boomtowns
• reservation
• ghosttowns
• transcontinental railroad

​ (a)   A railroad system that crossed the American continent. Construction began in 1863​

• transcontinental railroad
• Cross Country Rail Road
• Louisiana Purchase
• Reservation

​ (a)   Federal lands were set aside for American Indians.

• Reservation
• assimilate
• Homestead Act
• Exodusters

​ (a)   To give up traditional ways of life in favor of mainstream practices.

• Assimilate
• Exoduster
• Standard Time
• Deculturalization

​ (a)   A law passed by Congress to encourage settlement in the West by giving government-owned land to small farmers.​

• Homestead Act
• Louisiana Purchase
• Central Pacific
• Standard Time

​ (a)   African Americans who settled Western lands in the late 1800s.​

• Exoduster
• Frontier
• Settlers
• Westerners

​ (a)   The system set up by the railroad companies that divided the country into four time zones.​

• Standard Time
• Central Pacific
• Dawes Act
• Pony Express

​ (a)   The purchase of French land between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains that  doubled the size of the U.S (1803)

• Louisana Purchase
• Union Pacific
• Central Pacific
• Plains Indians

People who moved west to the undeveloped areas of the U.S.​ (a)  

• Settlers
• Expansioners
• Westerners
• Movers and Shakers

An undeveloped area (western U.S.).​ (a)  

• Frontier
• Great Plains
• The Great Beyond
• The New Frontier