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History Chap 14
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Booker T Washington | Great educator who built Tuskegee Institute |
| George Washington Carver | scientist whose work with plants helped Southern farmers; taught at Tuskegee Institute for many years |
| Soybeans | one of the most profitable crops a farmer can grow |
| Reservations | pieces of land set aside by the US for the Indians |
| transcontinental railroad | railroad that would cross the continent from coat to coast |
| Union Pacific Company | built the transcontinental railroad starting in Omaha, Nebraska |
| Central Pacific Company | built the transcontinental railroad starting in Sacrmento, California |
| Promontory Point, Utah | place where the two railroads met |
| stampede | a sudden rush of animals or people |
| Homestead Act | law that promised 160 acres of ree land to settlers in the West who would cultivate or homestead land for 5 years |
| Oklahoma Land Rush | time in 1889 when the government opened Oklahoma for settlement; settlers raced to find land they could call their own |
| Cyrus McCormick | inventor of the first successful mechanical reaper |