Memory Westward ExpansionVersión en línea Chapter 4: Western Expansion --> Jones Social Studies por Anthony Jones Created to negotiate peace with Plains Indian tribes and the white man A person who continually moves place to place. to drive cattle long distances for great profits. dry farming Manifest Destiny boomtown assimilate A Spanish-speaking quarter in a southwestern town. A law that encouraged western migration. Long Drive to absorb a group of people into a culture. Indian Peace Commission A way of farming where the seed is planted deep in the ground. The belief that the United States should be "sea to shining sea" nomad sodbuster A town undergoing a sudden population increase Homestead Act barrios A name given to Great Plains farmers