Westward Expansion Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
California gold rush | period were thousands of people went west to search for gold. |
cattle drive | when cowboys guided huge herds of cattle north to new railroads lines extending across The great plains. |
pony express | business that delivered mail from Missouri to California in just ten days. |
Telegraph | invention that sent messages along wires using electricity. |
samuel B. Morse | developed a way to send telegraph messages. |
Transcontinental railroad | a railroad across the continent linking the Eastern united states to the Western united states. |
central pacific | began building train track east from Sacramento California. most workers where Chinese immigrants. |
Promontory point | place in Utah where the union pacific met the central pacific and connected the transcontinental railroad |
Chinese Immigrants | made up almost 80% of the central pacific workers |
union pacific | began building train track west from Omaha, most workers were Irish immigrants. |
red cloud | told union pacific workers they were scaring away the buffalo. |
Gen William tecumsah sherman | warned the native Americans that nothing would stop the building of the railroads. |
Homestead Act of 1862 | law offered free land to american citizens and immigrants who where willing to start new farms on the great plains had to be a man 21 or older or woman who was head of the family. got up to 160 acres of land. paid about $10 and agreed to farm and live |
Homestead Act of 1862 | on the land for at least 5 years. |
homesteaders | settlers who claimed land though the homestead Act. |
sod house (soddy) | houses made from sod (soil) on the great plains. |
sodbusters | the name for farmers on the great plains. |
pioneers | new settlers. |
exodusters | thousands of African american pioneers who moved to the great plains and started communities. |
Nicodemus Kansas | a successful community started by exodusters. |
technology | the use of new ideas to make tools that improve people's lives. |
entrepreneur | a person who starts a new business hoping to make a profit. |
levi strauss | began making pants out of blue denim that were sturdy and didn't tear - the first blue jeans |
reservation | area of land set aside for Native Americans. |
abridge | to take away or shorten |
insurrection | rebellion against your own country. |
due process | all the steps taken to preserve the rights of citizens |
naturalization | to give the rights being a citizen to someone not born in the US |
obligation | a promise, contract, or sense of duty. |
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