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Westward Expansion
Term | Definition |
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Exodusters | African Americans who migrated west from Mississippi to Kansas. |
Transcontinental Railroad | A railroad that linked from Omaha, Nebraska to Sacremento California to transport goods. |
Pony Express | Mail delivery by horse riders (lasted for one year) |
Gold Rush | When everybody started migrating to the West to find gold |
Telegraph | A faster way to send mail than the Pony Express by using electricity |
Prospecters | People who would mine for gold in the river |
Samuel Morse Code | A code for the telegraph |
Homestead Act | Abraham Lincoln declared that you could move out west and have one hundred sixty acres of land for just $18.00! You had to farm it for five years, and if you did it successfully, you owned that land. |
Sodbuster | A farmer who plowed land (usually lived in a house under a hill for protection of different weather conditions) |
Homesteader | (same thing as Homestead Act) |
Pioneer | An early explorer or settler, usually out in the American West. |