5th Grade Topic 10 Exam Vocabulary Review

The movement by cowboys of large herds of cattle from grazing areas to towns where they could be shipped to market.

A railroad that spans an entire continent.

A person who built a home on the edge of the wilderness.

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

The idea, popular in the 1800s, that the United States had a right to add territory until it reached the Pacific Ocean.

The nickname given to a person who settled on the Great Plains and had to break up the thickly rooted grass, or sod to build a home and plant crops.

A long period of low or no rainfall.

A person who migrated to the West to take advantage of the Homestead Act; a settle or pioneer.

The use of technology to bring water to crops.

A law passed in 1862, in which the United States federal government promised settles 160 acres of land in the West for a fee of $18.00, as long as they built a home on the land within six months and lived there for at least five years.