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Westward Expansion!
Westward Expansion Chapter 3
Question | Answer |
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pioneer | early settler of a region |
Pony Express | service begun in 1860 that used a relay of riders on horses to deliver mail from Missouri to California in ten days |
technology | use of new ideas to make tools that improve people's lives |
Homestead Act | law signed in 1862 offering free land to people willing to start new farms on the Great Plains |
gold rush | sudden movement of many people to an area where gold has been found |
exoduster | name from African American pioneers who moved to the Great Plains after the Civil War |
reservation | land set aside by the government for Native Americans |
entrepreneur | person who starts a new business, hoping to make a profit |
homesteader | settler who claimed land in the Great Plains under the Homestead Act |
telegraph | device that sends messages through wires using electricity |
transcontinental railroad | railroad that crosses a continent; the first transcontinental railroad in the U.S. was completed in 1869 |
sodbuster | Great Plains farmer of the late 1800s who had to cut through sod, or thick grass, before planting crops |
cattle drive | way cowboys moved large herds of cattle north from ranches in Texas to towns along the railroads in the late 1800s |
Battle of Little Bighorn | Lakota victory over U.S. soldiers on June 25, 1876 |