Vocabulary Terms for week of 2/19 to 2/23

What was established in 1860 to carry mail across the United States?

• Pony Express

• Annexation

• Transcontinental Railroad

• homestead

What did the Pony Express deliver?

• Fresh fruit

• Horses

• Mail

• Telegraphs

What new transportation technology connected the west and east coasts of the continental US?

• automobiles

• telephones

• Transcontinental Railroad

• pony express

What was a community experiencing a sudden growth in business or population called?

• flavor town

• ghost town

• homesteads

• boomtown

As westward expansion grew many towns grew quickly but then were left abandoned due to lack of economic activity. What were these abandoned towns called?

• homesteads

• ghost towns

• boomtowns

• hometowns

A nickname for people who rushed to California in 1849 for gold.

• gold rushers

• homesteaders

• 49ers

• gold diggers

The formal act of acquiring something (especially territory) by conquest or occupation.

• annexation

• taxation

• homesteaders

• Manifest Destiny

The term "homestead" could best be described as...

• a community experiencing a sudden growth in business or population

• A nickname for people who rushed to California in 1849 for gold.

• a tract of public land available for settlement

• a place to stay in New York when traveling west didn't work out

True or False: the pony express was a formal act of acquiring something (especially territory) by conquest or occupation

• True

• False

True or False: a ghost town is a community experiencing a sudden growth in business or population

• True

• False