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Westward Expansion Vocabulary

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

_________ are difficult situations that cause discomfort or

suffering.

a)

sympathy

b)

hardships

2.

The people who first settled in new areas of the frontier called

__________.

a)

pioneers

b)

ancestors

3.

_____________ refers to how we move people or

things from one place to another?

a)

communicate

b)

transport

4.

When you move to a new place and make it your

home, it is called ___________.

a)

charged

b)

settled

5.

A __________ is a region or area of land.

a)

territory

b)

route

6.

The word _________ means to tell someone

something.

a)

transport

b)

communicate

7.

A _________ the a way we get from one place to another.

a)

skill

b)

route

8.

A ______________ is a group of wagons headed west.

a)

territroy

b)

wagon train

9.

A _______ is a waterway used to move things from place to place using

boats.

a)

canal

b)

route

10.

___________ are objects or structures on land that are easy to recognize.

a)

landmarks

b)

inventors

11.

The antonym of front is __________.

a)

side

b)

back

12.

To __________ is to make something that did not exist before.

a)

create

b)

encounter

13.

A ________ is a trip or a journey.

a)

sight

b)

voyage

14.

If you have _________, you have the strength to do

something for a long time.

a)

endurance

b)

sympathy

15.

It is __________ when it doesn't require a lot of effort or

trouble.

a)

difficult

b)

convenient