click below
click below
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Westward 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 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 telegraphs messages. |
Transcontinental Railroads | a railroad across the continent linking the Eastern United States to the Westward United States. |
Union Pacific | began building train track west from Omaha, Most workers for 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 that transcontinental railroad |
Chinese Immigrants | made up almost 80% of the Central pacific workers |
Red Cloud | told Union Pacific workers that they were scaring away the buffalo |
Gen. William Tecumsah | warned the Native Americans that nothing would stop the building of the railroads |
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 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 moved to the Great Plains and started communites. |
Nicodemus, Kansas |