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Westward Expansion
Term | Definition |
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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 telegraph messages |
Transcontinental Railroad | A railroad across the continent linking the Eastern United States to the Western United States |
Union Pacific | Began building train track West from Omaha, most workers were Irish immigrants |
Central Pacific | Began building train track East from Sacramento, California. Most workers were Chinese immigrants |
Promontory Point | Place in Utah where the Central Pacific and connected the transcontinental railroad |
Chinese Immigrants | Made up almost 80% of the Central Pacific workers |
Red Cloud | Told Union Pacific workers they were scaring away the Buffalo |
Gen. William Tecumsah Sherman | 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 willing to start new farms on the Great Plains,Had to be man 21 or older or a women who head of family,got up to 160 acres ,paid about $10 and agree to farm and live on land least 5 years |
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 |
Nicodemus, Kansas | A successful community started by Exodusters |
Technology | The use of new Ideas to make tools that improve people's lives |
Pioneers | New Settlers |
Exodusters | Thousands of African American Pioneers who moved to the Great Plains and started community |
Entrepreneur | A person who starts a new business hoping to make profit |
Levi Strauss | Began making pants out of blue denim that were Sturdy and didn't tear - the first blue jeans |
Reservation | Area of land set aside for Native Americans |
Chief Sitting Bull | Chief of the Lakota tribe in the Black Hills of South Dakota |
Col. George Cluster | Led the 7th Cavalry on a mission to defeat the Lakota and force them onto a new Reservation |
Battle of Little Bighorn | Battle in which crazy house helped lead the Lakota to victory against the U.S. forces |
Chief Joseph | A Nez Pierce' Chief who led his people to the Canadian border to avoid moving to a Reservation |