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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 | A buisness that delivered from Missouri to California in just ten days |
Telegraph | Invention that sent messages along wires using electricty |
Samuel B. Morse | Developed a way to send telegraph messages |
Transcontinental Railroad | A railroadacross the continent linking the eastern United States to the Western United States |
Union Pacific | Began building train tracks west from Omaha. Most workers were Irish Immagrants |
Central Pacific | Began building train tracks east from sacramento, California. Most workers were Chinese immagrants. |
Promontory Point | Place in Utah where the 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 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 immagrants |
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. |
Pioneers | New settlers |
Exodusters | Thousands of African Americans pioneers who moved to the Great Plains and started communities. |
Nicodemus, Kansas | A succesful community started by exodusters |
Technology | The use of new ideas to make that improve people's lives |
Entrepreneur | A person who starts a new buisness hoping to make a 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 |
Sitting Bull | Chief of the Lakota tribe in the black hills South Dakota |
Col. George Custer | Led the 7th Cavalrey on a mission to defeat the Lakota and force them onto a new reservation |
Battle of Little Bighorn | Battle in which Crazy Horse helped lead the Lakota to victory against the U.S forces |
Chief Joseph | A Nez Perce chief who led hos people to the Canadian to avoid moving to a reservation. |