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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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People who came from China to work on the Transcontinental Railroad.
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.
a town that has grown very rapidly as a result of sudden prosperity.
a mark made by burning or otherwise, to indicate kind, grade, make, ownership, etc.
a.to burst. • b.to bankrupt; ruin financially.
the wealth, whether in money or property, owned or employed in business by an individual, firm, corporation, etc.
Nez Perce leader who led his people in their unsuccessful effort to escape to Canada to avoid being forced onto a reservation.
People who used to live in China now are traveling to the United States to live.
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.
a fight, battle, or struggle, esp. a prolonged struggle; strife.
an act or instance of working or acting together for a common purpose or benefit; joint action.
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.
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.
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.
The movement or shift from the usual place or position, especially to force to leave a homeland
characteristic of a people, esp. a group sharing a common and distinctive culture, religion, language, or the like.
native to or coming from Europe: traditional customs; languages.
African/American Freedmen who sought for opportunities in the West. • Many settled in Kansas
a hired laborer, esp. on a farm or ranch; farm hand or ranch hand.
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.
1.the owner or holder of a homestead. • 2.a settler under the Homestead Act.
the central part of a wheel, as that part into which the spokes are inserted.
to come to a country of which one is not a native, usually for permanent residence.
