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westward expantion
Term | Definition |
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coolies | Asian immigrants that came to work on the railroad |
Homestead Act | signed in 1862 offering free land to people willing to start new farms on the Great Plains. |
homesteader | Settlers who claimed land on the Great Plains under the Homestead Act. |
Promontory Point | Place in northwestern Utah where tracks of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads met in 1869 to complete the transcontinental railroad |
sod-buster | Great Plains farmer of the late 1800s who had to cut through sod, or thick grass, before planting crops. |
Soddy | a dirt house |
transcontinental railroad | Railroad that crosses a continent. The first transcontinental railroad in the United States was completed in 1869. |
manual labor | Jobs done by hand |
mechanization | mechanization Changed farming in us |
Cyrus McCormick | A farmer and inventor |
reaper | A machine that cut grain |
tresering mcinerig | Separate grain from stalks |
L.O. Colvin | Made the first milking mcinehcine |
Gustave de Lavale | Separated milk from cream in minute. |