to put a person or thing in a successful position
economy
Establish
frontier
when something gets bigger
Expansion
population
explanation
to look around a new place
explore
speculate
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.
development
reservations
Native Americans
begain in the 1840s when people discovered gold in California. As a result, some settlers moved west to look for gold.
silver rush
gold rush
teacher rush
Cowboys' main business to make money; in this business, cattle are raised and sold for their meat.
farming
ranching
Wild West
the result of building things and putting things together
population
occupied
construction
lived on
population
doorsteps
occupied
way or trail
route
development
discovery
a person who moves with a group of others to live in a new country or area
settler
individual
ranching
Many people moves into the town
ghost town
boomtown
mining
process of digging things out of the ground
investing
claiming
mining
a group or individual that provides the money to start a new project (for example, for mining)
investor
speculator
inventor
things that will not last forever (example: after a lot of mining, gold runs out)
discovery
limited resources
unlimited resources
