Fast & Curious Unit 1

unexplored territory beyond settled

or industrialized communities

• Homestead Act

• Rural

• Great Plains

• Frontier

The railroad system that connected the eastern cities to the western frontier; construction completed in 1869

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Rural

• Great Plains

• Americanization

Region of the western US comprised of

flat grasslands that has been converted to farmland; sits

between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Rural

• Great Plains

• Americanization

Characterized by small communities in the

countryside outside of big cities

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Rural

• Urban

• Americanization

The process of becoming more “American” or adopting American cultural practices

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Rural

• Urban

• Americanization

The process of stripping away your original cultural practices and customs to adopt the culture of

your new environment

• Assimilate

• Rural

• Urban

• Americanization