Westward Expansion Vocabulary
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Westward Expansion Vocabulary
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1. Technological Advances•Progress in
the use of scientific
discoveries for practical
use.
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2. Erode• The movement
of soil from one place to another through natural
processes.
– Examples: Wind and rain.
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3. Dust Storm • A strong wind carrying clouds of
dust across or from a dry region.
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4. Barbed Wire•Wire with sharp points on it
every few inches, used for fencing.
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5. Steel Plow• A steel farm tool used for cutting and
lifting the soil and turning it
over.
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6. Sod Houses• Houses made of stacked sod, which
are pieces or layers of dirt containing the grass and its roots.
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7. Beef Cattle Raising• Raising cattle for the purpose
of selling the meat of the
animal at market as a
means of income.
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8. Wheat Farming• The growing of
wheat for the purpose of selling the crop at market
as a sustainable means of income
on the Great Plains.
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9. Windmills•A machine
worked by the action of wind used to pump water.
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10. Dry Farming• A way of farming dry
land in which seed are
planted deep in the ground
where there is some moisture.
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11. Transcontinental Railroad• A railroad project
contracted by the U.S. government
in 1863 & completed in 1869
linking the east and west coasts.
NOTE: The Union Pacific built from the east, & the Central Pacific from the west.
The two lines met in Utah. The Central Pacific laborers were mostly Chinese, and the Union Pacific laborers mostly Irish.
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12. Migration• The movement of people or
animals from one place to another.
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13. Great Plains (Prairie)• The Great Plains
are a broad expanse of flat land, which lies
west of the Mississippi River and east of the
Rocky Mountains in the United
States.
This area covers parts of the U.S. states of Colorado, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North
Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming.
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14. Treaty• A signed,
formal agreement or understanding between two individuals or
groups of people.
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15. Assimilation • To adapt
and conform to
the customs or attitudes of a group or nation.
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16. Reservation• A tract of public land
set apart for a special purpose such as the use of an American
Indian tribe.
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17. Geronimo• This Native–American was an Apache war chief
who was opposed to Westward Expansion. – He took revenge on the Mexicans
& settlers of the Southwest for the murder of his wife, mother, & three children.
– He later surrendered to U.S. authorities & remained a prisoner of war until his death in 1909.
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Geronimo 1887
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18. Chief Joseph• This Native-American chief
of a Nez Perce tribe in Idaho who was opposed
to Westward Expansion.
– He tried to move his people to Canada, while fighting off the U.S. military, but eventually surrendered and relocated to a reservation rather than see more of his people die.
– Upon his surrender he stated, “From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.”
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19. Sitting Bull• Native-American chief
of the Sioux nation who was opposed to Westward Expansion. – He is most famous for the multi-tribal
victory known as the battle of Little Big Horn or Custer’s Last Stand in 1876.
– Sitting Bull would later surrender in 1881 and be forced onto a reservation where he is killed by Indian police in 1890.
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20. Nez Perce`• This Native-American
tribal nation lived mainly in the Pacific
Northwest of the United States; the name translates to
“The People.” • Their descendants
now inhabit a reservation in Idaho.