| A | B |
|---|
| Exodusters | African Americans who went West |
| Miners | Americans who went west in search of gold or silver |
| Adventure | One reason for westward migration |
| Transcontinental Railroad | connected states in the East to States in the West |
| The Homestead Act | gave opportunities for land ownership |
| Forty-niners | Another word for 'miners' |
| boomtowns | quickly made mining towns that supported miners |
| cowboys/ranchers | workers responsible for the cattle drives |
| California | where gold was discovered in 1849 |
| Manifest Destiny | The belief that Americans could take their technology to the West |
| sodbusters | Farmers who lived on the Great Plains |
| Chilsolm Trail | two month cattle drive to the railroads |
| Irish and Chinese | immigrants who moved West and built the transcontinental railroad |
| Native Americans | People forced to live on reservations |
| Pioneer women | built houses, made clothing, helped with harvesting |
