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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 | 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 |
| 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 Union Pacific met the Central Pacific and connected the transcontinental railroad |