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Sirius Reach Unit 6 vocab (Wild West)

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  • A country's _____ is its system of business
    dollar
    development
    economy
  • something new that someone finds
    discovery
    frontier
    establish
  • 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