Missions were church-based communities for native peoples.

Reservations were especially suited (good) for farming

Early houses built on the Great Plains were made entirely of wood.

Of what materials did Native Americans of the Great Plains make their teepees ?

What event led to the Lewis and Clark expedition?

What did some people who disapproved of its purchase call the area of Alaska?

What provision of the Homestead Act encouraged people to move west of the Mississippi River?

What term is used to describe a region just beyond or at the edge of a settled area?

Some Native American groups on the Plains were _____ so they could hunt herds of bison.

The Pueblo people of the Southwest practiced dry farming, conserving scarce water to grow corn, beans, and _____.

Who were the first Europeans to establish a settlement near what is now El Paso, Texas?

Which term refers to church-based settlements in California and Texas in the 1700s?

In the 1680s, the French claimed the land drained by the Mississippi River and called this vast area _____.

Which term refers to a region just beyond or at the edge of a settled area?

Which belief encouraged the nation's westward movement?

In the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, _____ gave the United States a vast area that later became states.

The discovery of what resource drew thousands of settlers to California, Nevada, and other western areas?

Where were Native Americans forced to live after their land was taken away by white settlers?