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SS unit 2
Westward Expansion
Term | Definition |
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Transcontinental Railroad | Railroad that crosses a continent. |
Coolies | Chinese immigrants who came to build the transcontinental railroad. |
Promontory Point, Utah | Where the Golden Spike was put at of the two railroads. |
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 Plain farmers of the 1800´s who had to cut through sod. |
Soddy | A house of sod. |