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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 gided huge herds of cattle North to new railroad lines extending across The Great Plains |
| Pony express | businesses that delivered huge herds of cattle North to new railroad lines extending across the great plains |
| 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 States to the Western United States |
| Union pacific | began building train tracks west of Omaha, most workers were Irish immagrants |
| Central pacific | began building train track east from Sacramento California. Most workers were Chinese immigrants |
| Promontory Point | place in Utah were the union Pacific met the central Pacific and connected the transcontinental railroad. |
| Chinese Immigrants | made up almost 80% of Central Pacific workers |
| Red Cloud | told Union Pacific workers they were scaring away the buffalo |
| Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman | warned the Native Americans that nothing would stop the building of the railroads |
| Homestead act of 1812 | law that offered land to American citizens and immigrants who were going to make farm on the great plains |
| Homesteaders | settlers who claimed land through the homestead act |
| sod house (soddy) | houses made of sod from the great plains |
| sodbusters | the name of farmers on the great plains |
| pioneers | new settlers |
| exodusters | thousands of African American pioneers who moved to the great plains and started communitys |
| Nicodemus, Kannsas | a successful community started by exodusters |
| technology | the use of of new ideas to make tools that improve peoples lives |
| entrepreneur | a person who starts a new blueness hoping to make a profit |
| Levi Strauss | began making pants out of blue denim that where sturdy and diddent tear |
| Resevation | a place set aside for native amaricans |
| Sitting bull | cheif of the Lakota tribe in the Black Hills of South Dakota |
| Col. George Cluster | led the 7th Calvary on a mission to defeat the Lakota and force them into reservations |
| Battle of Little Bighorn | battle in which Crazy Horse helped lead the Lakota to victory against the U.S. forces |
| Chief Joseph | A Nez Peirce' chief who led his people to the Canadian border to avoid moving to a reservation |
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