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California Gold Rush   period where thousands of people went west to search for gold  
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Cattle Drive   when cowboys gided huge herds of cattle North to new railroad lines extending across The Great Plains  
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Pony express   businesses that delivered huge herds of cattle North to new railroad lines extending across the great plains  
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Telegraph   invention that sent messages along wires using electricity  
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Samuel B. Morse   developed a way to send telegraph messages  
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Transcontinental railroad   a railroad across the continent linking the Eastern United States to the Western United States  
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Union pacific   began building train tracks west of Omaha, most workers were Irish immagrants  
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Central pacific   began building train track east from Sacramento California. Most workers were Chinese immigrants  
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Promontory Point   place in Utah were the union Pacific met the central Pacific and connected the transcontinental railroad.  
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Chinese Immigrants   made up almost 80% of Central Pacific workers  
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Red Cloud   told Union Pacific workers they were scaring away the buffalo  
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Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman   warned the Native Americans that nothing would stop the building of the railroads  
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Homestead act of 1812   law that offered land to American citizens and immigrants who were going to make farm on the great plains  
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Homesteaders   settlers who claimed land through the homestead act  
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sod house (soddy)   houses made of sod from the great plains  
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sodbusters   the name of farmers on the great plains  
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pioneers   new settlers  
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exodusters   thousands of African American pioneers who moved to the great plains and started communitys  
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Nicodemus, Kannsas   a successful community started by exodusters  
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technology   the use of of new ideas to make tools that improve peoples lives  
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entrepreneur   a person who starts a new blueness hoping to make a profit  
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Levi Strauss   began making pants out of blue denim that where sturdy and diddent tear  
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Resevation   a place set aside for native amaricans  
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Sitting bull   cheif of the Lakota tribe in the Black Hills of South Dakota  
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Col. George Cluster   led the 7th Calvary on a mission to defeat the Lakota and force them into reservations  
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Battle of Little Bighorn   battle in which Crazy Horse helped lead the Lakota to victory against the U.S. forces  
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Chief Joseph   A Nez Peirce' chief who led his people to the Canadian border to avoid moving to a reservation  
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