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Westward Expansion
Social Studies Westward Expansion CH. 3
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Gold Rush | sudden movement of many people to an area where gold has been found. |
| Reservation | land set aside by the government for Native Americans. |
| Entrepreneur | person who starts a new business, hoping to make a profit |
| Levi Straus | Salesperson, clothing manufacturer who opened a dry goods store in San Francisco. He made sturdy work pants for miners. |
| Chief Joseph | Nez Perce leader who became the chief in 1871. He lef his followers on a 1,600 mile journey to escape the US soldiers. He surrendered to soldiers in 1877. |
| Cattle Drive | Method cowboys used to move large herds of cattle north from ranches in Texas to towns along the railroads in the late 1800s. |
| Homestead Act | Law signed in 1862 offering free land to people willing to start new farms of the Great Plains. |
| Exodusters | Name for African American pioneers who moved to the Great Plains after the Civil War |
| Homesteaders | settlers who claimed land on the Great Plains under the Homestead Act. |
| Sodbuster | Great Plains farmer of the late 1800s who had to cut through sod, or thick grass, before planting crops. |
| Pioneer | early settler of a region. |
| Samuel Morse | Inventor, teacher, and painter who established the first commercial telegraph in the 1840s. |
| Pony Express | Service begun in 1860 that used a relay of riders on horses to deliver mail from Missouri to California in ten days. |
| Telegraph | Device that sends messages through wires using electricity |
| Transcontinental Railroad | Railroad that crosses a continent. The first transcontinental railroad in the US was completed in 1869. |
| Indian Removal Act | Passed by Andrew Jackson in 1830 that forced Native Americans out of their land and onto Reservations. |
| Boomtown | A town that grew as a result of miners rushing to the area to search for gold. |
| Ghost Town | ________ is what a boomtown turns into after all of the miners leave. |
| Miners | People who search for gold, silver, or other precious metals/gems. |
| Cowboys | _______ guided huge herds of cattle. Earned $30 a month. 1/3 were Mexican American or African American. They were very young. |
| Steel Plow | John Deere invented the _________ ________ to farm the thick soil of the Great Plains. |
| Barbed Wire | Joseph Glidden invented _______ _______ in 1874 to stop animals away from his crops. |
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