Westward Expansion
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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 coyboys guided huge herds of cattle North to new railroad lines extendending across The Great Plains
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Pony Express | buisness that delivered mail from Missouri to California in just en days
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Telegraph | invention sent messages along wires using elctricity
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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 track west from Omaha, Most workers were Irish immigrants
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Central Pacific | began building track west from Sacromento California. Most workers were Chinese immagrants
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Promontory Point | place in Utah where Union Pacific met the Central Pacific and connected the Transcontinental railroad
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Chinese Immagrants | made up almost 80% of the Central Pacific workers
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Red Cloud | told Union Pacific workers they were scaring away the workers
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Gen. William Tecumsah Sherman | warned the Native Americans that nothing would stop the building of the railroads
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Homestead Act of 1862 |
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