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West Word Expansion
Term | Definition |
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Cattle 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 Plain. |
Pony Express | Business that delivered mail from Missouri to California in just ten days. |
Telegraph | Invention that sent messages along wires using electricity. |
Samuel B. Morse | Developed a way to send telegraph messages. |
Union Pacific | A railroad across the continent linking the Eastern United States to the Western United States. |
Central Pacifica | Began building train tracks east from Sacramento California. Most workers were Chinese immigrants. |
Promontory | Place in Utah where the Union Pacific met the Central Pacific and connected the transcontinental railroad. |
Transcontinental Railroad | A railroad across the continent linking the Eastern United State to the Western United States. |
Chinese Immigrants | Make up almost 80% of the Central Pacific workers. |
Red Cloud | Told Union Pacific worker they were scaring away the buffalo. |
Gen.William Tecumsah Sherman | Warned the Native American that nothing would stop the building of the railroads. |
Homestead Act Of 1862 | Law that offered free land to American citizens and immigrant who were willing to star new farms on the great plains. |
Homesteaders | Settlers who claimed land through the Homestead Act. |
Sod House (Soddy) | House made from (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 Defeat the Lakota and force them onto a new Reservation. |
Battle of Little Bighorn | Battle in which Crazy Horse helped lead the Lakota to victory against the U.S forces. |
Chief Joseph | A Nez Perce' chief who led his people to the Canadian border to avoid moving to a reservation. |