click below
click below
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Westward exaptation
Westward
| 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 exting across the great plains |
| Pony Express | Business that delivered mail from Missouri California in just ten days |
| Telegraph | invention that sent messages along wires using electricity |
| Samual B. Morse | Developed a way to send telegraph messages |
| Transcontinentral Railroad | A railroad across the continent linking the Eastern United states to the Westeren United states |
| Union 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 |
| Chinese Immigrants | Made up almost 80% of the central Pacific workers |
| Red cloud | Told Union Pacific They where scaring the Buffalo |
| nion |