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Go West!
Term | Definition |
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westward expansion | the expansion of the U.S. (American territories) from the East to the West |
black cowboys | former slaves who went west for economic reasons as well as less discrimination |
cattle trail | a path used for transporting cattle at the turn of the century |
Chisholm Trail | a route for driving cattle from San Antonio, Texas to Abilene, Kansas |
Great Western Cattle Trail | a trail in Texas used to drive cattle to markets in the East |
Wright Brothers | two brothers who invented, built, and flew the first airplane |
George Washington Carver | former slave, inventor and botanist who encouraged crop rotation |
Alexander Graham Bell | invented the first telephone changing the way people communicate |
Thomas Edison | invented the first electric light bulb |