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5
Grade Social Studies
Chapter 7 Vocabulary
Mrs. Thornburg’s version
Vocabulary Terms in Social Studies Ch. 7
Transcontinental Railroad
Drought
Homestead
Demand
Exodusters
Sodbusters
Supply
Barbed Wire
Reservation
Extinct
Assimilate
Railhead
Habitat
What do we call the railroad that crossed
the continent?
Transcontinental
What do we call a long period with little or no
rain?
Drought
What do we call twisted wire with a sharp
barb, or point, every few inches?
Barbed wire
What do we call land that the government
set aside for American Indians?
Reservation
What do we call an African American settler who
called him or herself after Exodus, a book of the
Bible?
Exodusters
What do we call a town where railroad
tracks begin or end?
Railhead
What do we call a settler’s home and land?
Homestead
What do we call an unfair, negative opinion
that can lead to unjust treatment?
Prejudice
What was the name given to Great Plains farmers
because they had to break through so much thick
soil, called sod, in order to farm?
Sodbuster
What do we call changing a group’s culture
and traditions so that it blends with a larger
group?
Assimilate
What do we call the amount of something
that people want to sell at certain prices?
Supply
What do we call the amount of something
that people want to buy at certain prices?
Demand
What do we call the area where an animal or
a plant normally lives or grows?
Habitat
What do we call it when a certain type of
plant or animal no longer exists?
Extinct