Westward Expansion
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each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| Transcontinental Railroad | Railroad that crosses a continent.The first transcontinental railroad in the United states was completed in 1869
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| Coolies | Chinese Immigrants who were working on the Transcontinental railroad.
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| Promontory Point, Utah | Place in the northwest Utah where tracks of the union pacific and central Pacific railroad met in 1869 to complete the transcontinental railroad
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| Homesteader | Settlers who claimed land on the Great plains under the Homestead acts.
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| Homestead Act | Law signed in 1862 offering free land to people willing to start new farms on the great plains.
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| Sod buster | Great Plains farmer of the late 1800s who had cut through sod, or thick grass before planting crops.
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| Soddy | Chunks of dirt and grass, often used to build houses.
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