Westward Expansion Vocab

A disagreement, fight, or battle-

• Expansion

• Conflict

• Sod

• Urban

The prairie grass of the Great Plains; it had roots that were at least a foot thick; used to build houses because of the lack of trees there

• Sod

• Conflict

• Bison

• port

The city; which is more crowded has lots of people and businesses; it usually has tall buildings

• Conflict

• Rural

• Urban

• Port

Outside of a city but not quite in the country; neighborhoods

• Perception

• Rural

• Port

• Suburban

The country; usually an area with lots of farms where there are fewer people than in a city.

• Rural

• Port

• Conflict

• Urban

How you see things; point of view.

• Conflict

• Port

• Perception

• Urban

A root that means "carry"-

• -ization

• port

• urban

• trans-

A prefix that means "across"-

• Perception

• -ization

• port

• trans-

A suffix that means "growth of"-

• port

• -ization

• trans-

• rural

Passed by Lincoln in 1862, it provided 160 acres (1 square mile) of land in the Great Plains for free; if you lasted for 5 years, you could keep the land.

• Respect Agreement

• Homestead Act

• Magna Carta

• Declaration of Independence