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westward Expansion
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| California gold rush | period where thousands of people went west to search for gold. |
| cattle drive | when cowboys guided huge herds of cattle north to new railroad 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 |
| union pacific | began building train track west from Omaha, most workers were Irish immigrants |
| central pacific | began building train track east of Sacramento, most workers were Irish immigrants |
| promontory prompt | place in Utah where the union pacific met the central pacific and connect the transcontinental railroad. |
| Chinese immigrants | made up almost 80% of the central pacific workers |
| red cloud | told union pacific workers they were scaring away the buffilo |
| Gen. William Sherman | warned native Americans that nothing would stop the building of the rail roads |
| homestead act of 1862 | law that offered free land to American citizens would stop the building of the railroads |
| homesteaders | settelers who claimed land through the homested act |
| sod house (soddy) | houses made from sod (soil) on the great plains |
| sodbusters | the name for farmers on the great plains |
| pioneers | new settelers |
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