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SS Unit 2
Westward Expansion
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Transcontinental Railroad | Railroad that crosses a continent. The first transcontinental railroad in the United States was completed in 1869. |
| Coolies | Immigrates that had help build the train tracks. |
| Promontory Point, Utha | Place in northwestern Utah where tracks of the Union Pacific and central Pacific railroads met in 1869 to complete the transcontinental railroad, 41oN,112oW, |
| Homesteader | Town in southwest Pennsylvania, site of a major labor strike at Andrew Carnegie's Homestead Steel Works in 1862, 40oN, 80oW, |
| 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 | Stuff that are used to build homes. |