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SS Unit 2
Westward Expansion
Term | Definition |
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Transcontinental Railroad | Railroad that crosses a continent.The First Transcontinental Railroad in the United States was completed in 1869. |
Coolies | they are Chinese immigrants. |
Promontory Point, Utah | Place in Northwestern Utah where tracks of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific met in 1869 to complete the transcontinental Railroad. |
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 Plains farmer of the late 1800s who had to cut through sod , or thick grass, before planting crops. |
Soddy | Its Grass,dirt ,and soil that pioneers use to build houses |