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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 | buisness that deliverd 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 contenient linking the Eastern United States to the Western United States |
| Union Pacific | began building tain track west form Omaha, Most workers were Irish immigrants |
| Central Pacific | began building train track east from Sacramento, California. Most workers were Chinese immagrants |
| Promontory Point | place in Utah where the Union Pacific me the Central Pacific and connected the transcontinental railroad |
| Chinese Immagrants | made up almost 80% of the Central Pacific workers |
| Red Cloud | told Union Pacific workers they were scaring away the buffalo |
| Gen. William Tecumasah Shermen | warned the Native Americans that nothing woud stop the building of the railroads |
| Homestead Act Of 1862 | law that offered free land to American citizens and immagrants 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 160acers of land. paid about $10 and agreed to farm and li |