VOCABULARY REVIEW Westward Expansion Vocabulary 1 an area

VOCABULARY REVIEW Westward Expansion

Vocabulary � 1. ______________ an area of land set aside for Native Americans. � 2. _______________ African American pioneer. � 3. _______________ business that delivered mail in Missouri to California in just 10 days.

Vocabulary � 4. _________________law that offered free land to American citizens and immigrants who were willing to start new farms on the Great Plains. 5. _________________ period when thousands of people went to search for gold. 6. ________________ use of new ideas to make tools to improve people’s lives.

Vocabulary � 7. _______________ Great Plains farmer. � 8. _______________ invention that sent messages along wires using electricity. � 9. _______________ person who starts a new business hoping to make a profit.

Vocabulary � � � 10. _______________ when cowboys guided huge herds of cattle north to new railroad lines extending across the Great Plains. 11. ________________ settler who claimed land through the Homestead Act. 12. ________________ new settler. 13. ______________railroad across the continent.