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Pioneer Vocab
5th Grade Mrs. Lee
Question | Answer |
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something that obstructs or hinders | obstacle |
place where the two sides of the Transcontinental Railroad met | Promontory Point, Utah |
a settler; one who is among the first to enter and occupy an area | pioneer |
the side of the railroad that began in California and traveled east | Central Pacific Railroad |
creator of the telegraph | Samuel Morse |
a settler under the Homestead Act | homesteader |
A train route across the United States, finished in 1869 | Transcontinental Railroad |
African American settlers | exodusters |
act that made public land in the west available to settlers | Homestead Act |
a way to communicate over long distances | telegraph |
farmer who works in sod | sodbuster |
railroad company that built the east half of the Transcontinental Railroad, heading west | Union Pacific Railroad |