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SS Unit 2
Westward Expansion
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Transcontinental Railroad | Railroad that crosses the continent. |
| Coolies | Chinese immigrants who came to work on the railroad |
| Promontory point Utah | Place in northwestern Utah where tracks of the union pacific and central pacific railroads met in 1865 to complete the transcontinental railroad. |
| Homesteader | Settlers who claimed land on the great plains during the homestead act. |
| homestead act | Law signed in 1862 offering free land to the people willing to start new farms on the great plains. |
| sodbuster | A person in the great plains who ripped up sod to plant crops |
| soddy | A house made of sod |