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Term | Definition |
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Transcontinental railroad | railroad that crosses a continent. the first transcontinental railroad in united states was completed in 1869 |
coolies | immigrants that worked on the transcontinental railroad. |
Promentory point, utah | house in the great plains. |
homesteaders | settlers who claimed land on the great plains under the homestead act |
homestead act | law signed in 1862 offered free land to people willing to start new farms on the great plains. |
sodbuster | great plains farmer of the late 1800 who had to cut though sod, or thick grasses, before planting crops. |
soddy | made out of dirt and grass. |