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