Westward Expansion Vocab
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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 guided huge herds of cattle North to new railroad lines extending across The Great Plains.
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| Pony Express | business that delivered mail from Missouri to California in just ten days.
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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 states.
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| Union Pacific | began building train track west from Omaha,Nebraska. Most workers were Irish immigrants.
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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 | a place in Utah where the Union Pacific met the Central Pacific and connected the transcontinental railroad.
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| Chinese Immigrants | made up 80% of the Central Pacific workers.
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| Red Cloud | Told the 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. | law that offered free land to American citizens and immigrants who were willing to start new farms on the Great Plains.
Had to be a man 21 or older or a women who was the head of the family
got up to 160 acres of land
paid about $10 and agreed to far
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| Homesteaders | settlers who claimed land through the Homesteaders Act.
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| Sod House (Soddy) | houses made from sod (soil) on The Great Plains.
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