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transcontinental railroad | A railroad across the country that transported goods. |
coolies | A Chinese immigrant who came to work on the transcontinental railroad |
promontory point | Place in northeastern Utah where the tracks of the Union Pacific and Central pacific railroads met in 1869 to complete the transcontinental railroad. |
homesteaders | 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. |
sodbusters | Great Plains farmer of the late 1800s who had to cut through sod, or thick grass, before planting crops. |
soddy | A house made of soil and grasses. |