Westward Expansion
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| California Gold Rush | show 🗑
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| Cattle Drive | show 🗑
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| show | business that delivered mail from Missouri to California in just ten days
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| Telegraph | show 🗑
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| show | developed a way to send telegraph messages
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| Transcontinental Railroad | show 🗑
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| show | began building train track west from Omaha. Most workers were Irish immigrants.
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| Central Pacific | show 🗑
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| Promontory Point | show 🗑
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| Chinese Immigrants | show 🗑
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| Red Cloud | show 🗑
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| show | warned the Native Americans that nothing would stop the building of the railroads
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| show | law that offered free land to American citizens and immigrants who were willing to start new farms on the Great Plains
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| show | settlers who claimed land through the Homestead Act
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| sod House (soddy) | show 🗑
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| sodbusters | show 🗑
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| show | new settlers
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| show | thousands of African Americans pioneers who moved to the Great Plains and started commnities
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| Nicodemus, Kansas | show 🗑
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| show | the use of new ideas to make tools to improve people's lives
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| entrepreneur | show 🗑
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| Levi Strauss | show 🗑
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| reservation | show 🗑
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| Sitting Bull | show 🗑
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| Col. George Custer | show 🗑
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| show | battle in which Crazy Horse helped lead the Lakota to victory against the U.S. forces
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| show | A Nez Perce' chief who led his people to the Canadian border to avoid moving to a reservation
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