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SS unit 2
Westward Expansion
Term | Definition |
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Transcontinental Railroad | Railroad that crosses a continent.The first transcontinental railroad in the United states was completed in 1869 |
Coolies | Chinese Immigrants who were working on the Transcontinental railroad. |
Promontory Point, Utah | Place in the northwest Utah where tracks of the union pacific and central Pacific railroad met in 1869 to complete the transcontinental railroad |
Homesteader | Settlers who claimed land on the Great plains under the Homestead acts. |
Homestead Act | Law signed in 1862 offering free land to people willing to start new farms on the great plains. |
Sod buster | Great Plains farmer of the late 1800s who had cut through sod, or thick grass before planting crops. |
Soddy | Chunks of dirt and grass, often used to build houses. |