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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 completed in 1869. |
| Coolies | Chinese immigrants who came from China to the U.S to help build the Transcontinental Railroad. |
| Promontory Point, Utah | Place northwestern Utah where tracks of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads met in 1869 to complete the transcontinental railroad |
| Homesteader | Settler 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 |