US History March vocabulary

What term describes the 19th-century belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable?

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Manifest Destiny

• Innovation

• Ranching

The construction of a continuous network of railroad tracks that crosses a continental land mass is referred to as (a)   .

• Immigrant Labor
• Plains Indians
• Transcontinental Railroad
• Population Growth

What is the term for the work performed by people who move from one country to another to find employment?

• Resistance

• Immigrant Labor

• Expansion

• Innovation

Who were the indigenous peoples that lived on the Great Plains of North America?

• Ranchers

• Plains Indians

• Innovators

• Immigrant Laborers

Match the following terms with their definitions.

• The process of increasing in size, number, or importance.

• Expansion

• The introduction of new ideas, methods, or products.

• Innovation

• The result or effect of an action or condition.

• Resistance

• The act of opposing or standing up against something.

• Consequences

The term that refers to the results or effects of an action or condition is (a)  

• Innovation
• Consequences
• Ranching
• Manifest Destiny

What is the term for the introduction of new ideas, methods, or devices?

• Innovation

• Expansion

• Resistance

• Ranching

What term describes the process of increasing in size, number, or importance?

• Ranching

• Expansion

• Innovation

• Resistance

What is the term for the practice of raising livestock on a large scale?

• Ranching

• Innovation

• Expansion

• Resistance

What term refers to the increase in the number of people in a particular area?

• Innovation

• Population Growth

• Resistance

• Ranching