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Western Expansion
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 deliver 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 |
| Transcontinental Railroad | a railroad across the continent linking the Eastern United Stated to the Western United States |
| Union Pacific | began building train track west from Omaha, most workers were Irish |
| Central Pacific | began building train track east from Sacramento, California . Most workers were Chinese immagrants |
| Promontory Point | place in Utah where Union Pacific met Central Pacific and connected transcontinental railroad |
| Chinese Immigrants | made up 80% of of the Central Pacific workers |
| Red Cloud | told Union Pacific workers they were scaring away the buffalo |
| Gen. William Tecumsah Sherman | told the Native Americans that nothing would stop them form building the railroad |
| Homestead Act of 1862 | law 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 through the Homestead Act |
| Sod Houses (Soddy) | houses made from sod (soil) in the Great Plains |
| Sodbusters | the names for farmers on the Great Plain |
| pioneers | new settlers |
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