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Unit 2
| Transcontinental Railroad | Railroad that crosses the continent. The first transcontinental railroad in the U.S. was completed in 1869 |
| Coolies | Chinese immigrants who helped build the Transcontinental railroad. |
| Promentory Point, Utah | 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 | 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 home made of dirt. |