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Soc. Chapter 16
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| pony express | business in which mail was delivered by express riders on horseback |
| barbed wire | twisted wire with sharp points used by homesteaders to keep cattle off their farmland |
| Homestead Act | government plan that offered free land to pioneers willing to start new farms on the Great Plains |
| Battle of Little Bighorn | Lokota defeat of General George Custer's U. S. troops |
| cattle drive | cowboys moving herds of cattle north to the railroad lines that extended across the Great Plains |
| exoduster | an Aftican American pioneer who started a new life in Kansas or Nebraska |
| homesteader | a settler who claimed land through the Homestead Act |
| reservation | an area of land set aside for Native Americans |
| sodbuster | a Great Plains farmer who had to dig through the tough sod before planting crops |
| telegraph | replaced the Pony Express and sent messages along wires using electricity |
| transcontinental railroad | railroad that crossed the continent |