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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 coyboys guided huge herds of cattle North to new railroad lines extendending across The Great Plains |
Pony Express | buisness that delivered mail from Missouri to California in just en days |
Telegraph | invention sent messages along wires using elctricity |
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 track west from Omaha, Most workers were Irish immigrants |
Central Pacific | began building track west from Sacromento California. Most workers were Chinese immagrants |
Promontory Point | place in Utah where Union Pacific met 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 workers |
Gen. William Tecumsah Sherman | warned the Native Americans that nothing would stop the building of the railroads |
Homestead Act of 1862 |