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Westward Expansion Vocabulary

Westward Expansion Vocabulary. People who came from China to work on the Transcontinental Railroad. Asian immigrants. a wire or strand of wires having small pieces of sharply pointed wire twisted around it at short intervals, used chiefly for fencing in livestock, keeping out trespassers, etc.

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Westward Expansion Vocabulary

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  1. Westward Expansion Vocabulary

  2. People who came from China to work on the Transcontinental Railroad.

  3. Asian immigrants

  4. a wire or strand of wires having small pieces of sharply pointed wire twisted around it at short intervals, used chiefly for fencing in livestock, keeping out trespassers, etc.

  5. barbed wire

  6. Oil, or petroleum

  7. black gold

  8. a town that has grown very rapidly as a result of sudden prosperity.

  9. boom town

  10. a mark made by burning or otherwise, to indicate kind, grade, make, ownership, etc.

  11. Brand

  12. a.to burst. • b.to bankrupt; ruin financially.

  13. Bust

  14. the wealth, whether in money or property, owned or employed in business by an individual, firm, corporation, etc.

  15. Capital

  16. driving a bovine herd (as cows or bulls or steers)

  17. cattle drive

  18. Nez Perce leader who led his people in their unsuccessful effort to escape to Canada to avoid being forced onto a reservation.

  19. Chief Joseph

  20. People who used to live in China now are traveling to the United States to live.

  21. Chinese immigration

  22. the composite or generally prevailing weather conditions of a region, as temperature, air pressure, humidity, precipitation, sunshine, cloudiness, and winds, throughout the year, averaged over a series of years.

  23. Climate

  24. a fight, battle, or struggle, esp. a prolonged struggle; strife.

  25. Conflict

  26. an act or instance of working or acting together for a common purpose or benefit; joint action.

  27. Cooperation

  28. an association of individuals, created by law or under authority of law, having a continuous existence independent of the existences of its members, and powers and liabilities distinct from those of its members.

  29. Corporation

  30. a man who herds and tends cattle on a ranch, esp. in the western U.S., and who traditionally goes about most of his work on horseback.

  31. Cowboy

  32. A law passed by the U.S. Congress that gave land to individual Native Americans, replacing communal tribal claims on land. The goal of the law was to make the Native Americans more national in nature and not tribal.

  33. Dawes Act

  34. The movement or shift from the usual place or position, especially to force to leave a homeland

  35. Displacement

  36. characteristic of a people, esp. a group sharing a common and distinctive culture, religion, language, or the like.

  37. Ethnic

  38. native to or coming from Europe: traditional customs; languages.

  39. Europeans

  40. African/American Freedmen who sought for opportunities in the West. • Many settled in Kansas

  41. Exoduster

  42. a hired laborer, esp. on a farm or ranch; farm hand or ranch hand.

  43. hired hand

  44. a special act of Congress (1862) that made public lands in the West available to settlers without payment, usually in lots of 160 acres, to be used as farms.

  45. Homestead Act

  46. 1.the owner or holder of a homestead. • 2.a settler under the Homestead Act.

  47. Homesteader

  48. the central part of a wheel, as that part into which the spokes are inserted.

  49. Hub

  50. to come to a country of which one is not a native, usually for permanent residence.

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