Lesson 1 Vocab
What were the early settlers called?
Pioneers
This is a way that water gets from a water source to the plants.
Irrigation
True or False: People went out west for better farming.
True
This is the name of the president who enacted the homestead act
Lincoln
What state did people go to most to find gold?
California
What was the time called when people wanted to find gold out west?
gold rush
This was the name of people who went out west under the homestead act.
Homesteaders
Which resource was scarce in the midwest?
Lumber or Cotton or Wheat?
Apart from cultivating the land, what was another reason the government wanted people to set up out west that we talked about in class.
protect the land
What was hammered into the meeting place of the transcontinental railroad?
The Golden Spike
the term used to describe moving cattle along dusty roads to railroad towns
Cattle Drive
This allowed people to get almost free land out west.
the homestead act
Where in the West did the transcontinental railroad begin?
Sacramento, California
This state offered free land to settlers
Oklahoma
About how many bricks did it take to build a sod house?
3,000
This is a railroad that stretched across the US
The Transcontinental Railroad
long periods with no rain
drought
Which city was the meeting point of the transcontinental railroad?
Promontory Point
What were three advantages of sod homes?
warm, cool, fireproof, could be built from resources nearby
Which three territories remained in 1900?
Oklahoma, Arizona, New Mexico
This was the belief that people should spread west across the US to the pacific
Manifest Destiny
people who settled on the prairie and built their homes there
Name one railroad company that helped link the East and West after the transcontinental railroad was built?
Kansas Pacific
Santa Fe
Other than irrigation, what was one of the two other ways in our notes that farmers adapted to the environment?
Name one inventor who made something that helped farming on the great plains.
John Deere
James Oliver
Cyrus McCormick
Joseph Glidden