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Westward Expantion
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| California Gold Rush | period where thousands of people went west to search for gold. |
| Cattle Drive | when cowboys guided huge herds of cattle North to new lines extending across the Great Plains |
| Pony Express | business that delivered mail from Missouri to California in just ten days |
| Telegrapgh | invention that sent messages along wires using electricity |
| Samuel B.Morse | developed a way to send telegraph messages |
| Transcriptional Rail Road | a rail road across the continent linking the Eastern United states to the Western United States |
| Union Pacific | began building train track west from Omaha, Most workers were Irish immigrants. |
| Central Pacific | began building train track east from Sacramento, California. Most workers were Chinese immigrants |
| Promontory Point | place in Utah where the Union Pacific met the Central Pacific and connected the transcontinental rail road |
| Chinese Immigrants | made up almost 80 present of the Central Pacific Workers |
| Red Cloud | told the Union Pacific workers they were scaring away the buffalo |
| Gen. Williams Tecumsah Sherman | Warned Native Americans that nothing would stop the building of the railroads |
| Homestead Act Of 1862 | law that offered free land to the American Citizens and immigrants who were willing to start new farms on the Great Plains |
| Homesteaders | Settlers who claimed land through the Homestead Act of 1862 |
| sod House ( Soddy ) | Houses made from sod ( soil ) on the Great Plains |
| Sodbusters | the name of farmers on the Great Plains |
| Pioneers | new settlers |
| exodusters | thousands of African American pioneers who moved to the Great plains and started a communities |
| Nicodemus, Kansas | A successful community started byexodusters |
| technology | the use of new ideas to make tools that improved people's lives |
| entrepuner | a person who makes new business hoping to make a profit |
| Levi Strauss | began making pants out of blue denim Sturdy tear the first blue jeans |
| Reservation | a are of land set aside for Native Americans |
| Sitting Bull | chief of Lakota tribe in the black hills of South Dakota |
| Col. George Custer | led the 7th Cavalry on a mission to Defeat the Lakota force them onto U.S. forces |
| Battle of Little Bighorn | battle in which Crazy Horse helped lead the Lakota to Victory against U.S. against U.S. forces |
| Chief Joseph | a Nez Perce chief who led his people to Canadian border to avoid a reservation |
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