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This 21-card set covers vocabulary from the era of American westward expansion and industrial development. Terms include homesteader, transcontinental railroad, manifest destiny, labor union, and tenement. Use it for history vocabulary review in a Grade 5 unit on nineteenth-century American growth and change.

Subject:
Social Studies
Topic:
History
Grade Level:
5th Grade
Updated March 2026

Terms in This Set

  • Homesteader
  • Poverty
  • Cattle Drive
  • Reservation
  • Monopoly
  • Commute
  • Slum
  • Suffrage
  • Manifest Destiny
  • Transcontinental Railroad
  • Exoduster
  • Poverty
  • Central Pacific Railroad
  • Union Pacific Railroad
  • Cowboy Life
  • Property Rights
  • Labor Union
  • Corporation
  • Trust
  • Strike
  • Tenement

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