Westward Expansion Vocabulary

2. Many former slaves made an ___________ from the South, and went west for a "new beginning".
4. Ranchers drove their cattle hundreds of miles to meet the railroads on the __________.
9. Many people went west to ______________ land under the Homestead Act.
12. The name for the people in 1889 who took part in the Oklahoma land rush.
13. ________captured and punished suspected wrongdoers without holding trials or following legal processes.
14. The _____________ railroad reduced travel time to the West.
15. One of the best ways to get goods that were not available on the Great Plains was to use ___________.
16. A method of farming that took steps to trap the limited moisture in the soil, such as plowing their land after each rainfall or planting seeds deep in the soil near water.

1. The government gave railroad companies a large _________, financial aid and land grants.
3. In 1889 the Indian Peace Commission set up areas of land or ___________ for Native Americans to live on.
5. Many thought that Native Americans would eventually take on the culture of the settlers living on the plains, this is called _____________.
6. Farmers on the Great Plains had to adapt to the environment and unusual conditions on the plains, and were known as ___________.
7. The name for the people in Oklahoma in 1889 who slipped into the area ahead of the land rush and claimed most of the best land.
8. In 1862, the government passed a law that gave away free land as long as settlers established __________.
10. In December 1890, more than 200 Lakota Sioux men, women, and children, were brutally shot and killed during the Wounded Knee ____________.
11. The US Governments _________ or plan for dealing with Native Americans, was to move them to reservations.