SS Unit 2 Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
Transcontinental Railroad | Railroad that crosses a continent The first transcontinental railroad in the United States completed in 1869. |
Coolies | Chinese immigrants who came from China to the U.S to help build the Transcontinental Railroad. |
Promontory Point, Utah | Place northwestern Utah where tracks of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads met in 1869 to complete the transcontinental railroad |
Homesteader | Settler who claimed land on the Great Plains under the Homestead Act |
Homestead Act | Law signed in 1862 offering free land to people willing to start new farms on the Great Plains. |
Sodbuster | Great Plains farmer of the late 1800s who had to cut |
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