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Westward Expantion
Unit 2
Term | Definition |
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Transcontinental Railroad | A railroad that crosses a continent. The first transcontinental railroad in the US was completed in 1869 |
Coolies | Chinese immigrants who worked on the transcontinetal railroad |
Promentory Point,Utah | A place in northwestern Utah where tracks of the Union pacific and Central pacific railroads met in 1869 to complete the transcontinental railroad. |
Homesteader | Settlers who claimed land on the Great Plains under the Homestead Act. |
Homestead Act | A law signed in 1862 offering free land to people willing to start new farms on the Great plains |
Sodbuster | Great plains farmer of the late 1800s who had to cut through sod or thick, grass before planting crops |
Soddy | A house in the Great plains made out of sod, grass ,and dirt |