to put a person or thing in a successful position
economy
Establish
frontier
when something gets bigger
explanation
population
Expansion
to look around a new place
speculate
explore
construction
a place where few, or no, people live (example: Space is a _____ for us to explore)
speculate
garden
frontier
individual
a person
fish
an animal
a system that allowed indigenous people to govern themselves. Was created to keep Native Americans off of lands that European Americans wished to settle.
Native Americans
development
reservations
begain in the 1840s when people discovered gold in California. As a result, some settlers moved west to look for gold.
teacher rush
silver rush
gold rush
Cowboys' main business to make money; in this business, cattle are raised and sold for their meat.
ranching
Wild West
farming
the result of building things and putting things together
population
occupied
construction
lived on
doorsteps
population
occupied
way or trail
discovery
development
route
a person who moves with a group of others to live in a new country or area
individual
settler
ranching
Many people moves into the town
ghost town
mining
boomtown
process of digging things out of the ground
claiming
investing
mining
a group or individual that provides the money to start a new project (for example, for mining)
speculator
inventor
investor
things that will not last forever (example: after a lot of mining, gold runs out)
limited resources
unlimited resources
discovery
