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Westward Expansion V
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Californa 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 |
| Telegragh | Invention that sent messages along wires using electricity |
| Samuel B. Morse | Developed aa way to send telegragh messages |
| Transcontinental Railroad | A railroad across the continent linking in Eastern United States to the Western United States |
| Union Pacific | Began building train track west from Omaha, Most workers were Chinese immigrants |
| Central Pacific | Began Building train track east from Sacrometo, California. Most workers were Chinese immigrants |
| Promontory Point | Place in Utah where 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 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 Americans citizens and immigrants who were willing to start new farms on the Great Plains Had to be a man 21 or older or a woman who was head of the family Got up to 160 acres of land Paid about $10 and agreed to farm and l |
| Homesteaders | Settlers who claimed land throgh 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 |
| Exoductors | Thousands of African-American pioneers who moved to the Great Plains and started communities |
| Nicodemus, Kansas | A succesful community started by exoductors |
| Technology | The use of new ideas to make tools that improve people's lives |
| Entrepreneur | A person who starts a new business hoping to make a profit |
| Levi Strauss | Began making pants out of blue demin that were sturdy and didn't tear- the first blue jeans |
| Reservation | Area of land set aside for Native americans |
| Sitting Bull | Cheif of the Lakota tribe in the Black Hills of the South |
| Col. George Custer | Led the 7th Calvary on mission to defeat the Defeat the Lakota and force them onto a new reservation |
| Battle of Little Bighorn | Battle in which Crazy Horse helped lead the Lakota and force them onto a new reservation |
| Cheif Joseph | A Nez Perce' cheif who lead his people to the Canadian border to avoid moving to a reservation |
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