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Westward expansion
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| california gold rush | Period when thousands of people went west to search for gold |
| Cattle Drive | When cowboys guided huge heards of cattles North to new rail roard lines extending across The Great Plains |
| Pony express | Buissness that mail from missuri to california in just 10 days |
| Telegraph | Invention that sends messages along wires using eletricity |
| Samuel B. Morse | Devloped a way to send telegraph messages |
| Transontinental Railroad | A railroad across the continent linking the Eastern United states to the Western United states |
| Central Pacific | Began building train tracks from sacramento,california. Most workers were Chinese immigrants |
| Union pacific | Began building train tracks west from Ohaha, most workers were Irish 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 clouds | told Union Pacific workers theey were scaring away the buffalo |
| gen. william tecumsah sherman | Warned the Native Americans that nothing would stop the building of the railroads |
| homestead act of 1862 | laws that offered free land to American citizens and immigrants who were willing to start new farms on the Great Plains |
| homesteaders | settlers who claimed land throgh the the homestead act |
| sod house (soddy)exodusters | houses made from sod (soil) on the Great plains |
| sod busrters | the name for farmers on the great plains |
| pioneers | new settlers |
| exodusters | thousands of Africans Americans pioneers who oved to the Great plains and started communities |
| Nicodemus, Kansas | A successful cummunity started by exodusters |
| technology | the use of new ideas to make tools that improve people's lives |
| entrepreur | a person who starts a new buisness hoping to make profit |
| Levi strauss | begin making pants out of blue detm that were sturdy and did'nt tear- the first blue jeans |
| Reservation | area of land set aside for Native American |
| sitting bull | chief of the Lakota tribe in the black Hills of south dakota |
| col. george custer | led the 7 Cavalry on a mission to defeat the Lakota and force them onto a new Reservation |
| Battle of Lttle Bighorn | battle in which crazy horse helped lead the Lakota to victory agaist the U.S. forces |
| chief Joseph | A Nez Perce' chief who led his peopleto the Canadian Border to avoid moving to a reservation |
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