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Westward Expansion
Question | Answer |
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California Gold Rush | period where thousands of people went west to search for gold |
Cattle Drive | when cowboys guided huge herds of cattle North to new railroad lines extending across the Great Plains. |
Pony Express | business that delivered mail Missouri to California just in ten days. |
Telegraph | invention that sent messages along wires using electricity |
Samuel B. Morse | developed a way to send telegraph messages |
Transcontinental Railroad | a railroad across in continent liking the Eastern United States to the Western United States |
Union Pacific | began building train track wast from Omaha, Most workers were Irish immigrants. |
Central Pacific | began building train track east from Sacramento, California. Most workers were Chinese immigrants. |
Promontory Point | place in Utah where the Union Pacific met the Central Pacific and connected the transcontinental railroad. |
Chinese Immigrants | made up almost 80% of the Central Pacific workers |
Red Cloud | told Union Pacific workers they were scaring away the buffalo |
Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman | warned the Native Americans that noting would stop the building of the railroads |
Homestead Act Of 1862 | law that offered free land to Americans citizens and immigrants who were willing to start new farms on the Great Plains |
Homesteaders | settlers who claimed land through the Homestead Act |
sod House (soddy) | houses made from sod (soil) on the Great Plains |
sodbusters | the name for farmers on the Great Plains |
pioneers | new settlers |
exodusters | thousands of African American pioneers who moved to the Great Plains and started communities |
Nicodemus, Kansas | a successful community started by exodusters |
technology | the use of new ideas to make tools that improve people's lives |
entrepreneur | a person who starts a new business hoping to make a profit |
Levi Strauss | began making pants out of blue denim that were Sturdy and didn't tear- the first blue jeans |
Reservation | area of land set aside for Native Americans |
Sitting Bull | chief of the Lakota tribe in the Black Hills of South Dakota |
Col.George Custer | led the 7th Cavalry on a mission to defeat the Defeat the Lakota and force |
Battle of Little Bighorn | |
Chief Joseph | A Nez Perce' chief who led his people to hte Canadian |