Americans Move West Vocabulary

people who move to live in a new place

• settlers

• frontier

• senators

the edge of unfamiliar land

• frontier

• sawmill

• mine

a way to get from one place to another

• route

• corral

• telegraph

a building where logs are cut so they can be used to build things

• sawmill

• corral

• reservations

to dig into the earth in search of valuable gems or metals, such as gold

• mine

• corral

• sawmill

a machine that relays messages over long distances by sending signals through wires

• telegraph

• route

• reservations

people from one country who move to another country to live

• immigrants

• frontier

• bison

is a fenced area for horses or other animals on a ranch

• corral

• sawmill

• mine

are big animals with curved horns on the sides of their heads

• bison

• hides

• frontiers

areas of land set aside by the government for Native Americans to live

• reservations

• frontier

• route