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Transcontinental Rai
Unit 2
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Transcontinental Railroad | Railroad that crosses the continent. |
| Coolies | Chinese immigrants who worked on the transcontinental Railroad. |
| Promentory Point, Utah | Place in Northwestern Utah where tracts of the union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads met in 1869 to complete the transcontinental railroad. |
| Homestead Act | Law singed in 1862 offering free land to people willing to start new farms on the Great PLains. |
| Sodbusters | cut through sod, or thick grass, before planting crops |
| Soddy | A house in the Great Plains made out of grass and dirt, built by Homesteader's. |
| homesteader | Settlers who claimed land on the Great Plains under the Homstead Act |