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Social Studies Unit2
Westward expansion
Term | Definition |
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Transcontinental Railroads | Railroad that crosses a continent |
Coolies | Immigrants from china hat came to work on the Transcontinental Railroad. |
Homesteader | people that claimed land on the great plains during the homestead act |
Homestead act | Law signed in 1862 offering free land to people who were willing to start a farm on the great plains |
Sodbuster | Farmers of the late 1800 who cut through sod |
soddy | a home made out of sod. |
Promontory point utah | Place in northwestern Utah where tracks of the union pacfic and central pacfic railroads |