1. 5th Grade Social Studies Chapter 7 Vocabulary
Mrs. Thornburg’s version

2. Vocabulary Terms in Social Studies Ch. 7
Transcontinental Railroad
Drought Homestead Demand
Exodusters Sodbusters Supply
Barbed Wire Reservation Extinct
Assimilate Railhead Habitat

3. What do we call the railroad that crossed the continent?

4. Transcontinental

5. What do we call a long period with little or no rain?

6. Drought

7. What do we call twisted wire with a sharp barb, or point, every few inches?

8. Barbed wire

9. What do we call land that the government set aside for American Indians?

10. Reservation

11. What do we call an African American settler who called him or herself after Exodus, a book of the Bible?

12. Exodusters

13. What do we call a town where railroad tracks begin or end?

14. Railhead

15. What do we call a settler’s home and land?

16. Homestead

17. What do we call an unfair, negative opinion that can lead to unjust treatment?

18. Prejudice

19. 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?

20. Sodbuster

21. What do we call changing a group’s culture and traditions so that it blends with a larger group?

22. Assimilate

23. What do we call the amount of something that people want to sell at certain prices?

24. Supply

25. What do we call the amount of something that people want to buy at certain prices?

26. Demand

27. What do we call the area where an animal or a plant normally lives or grows?

28. Habitat

29. What do we call it when a certain type of plant or animal no longer exists?

30. Extinct