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Westward Expansion

Westward Expansion. Area of land set aside for Native Americans. reservation. African American pioneer. Exoduster. Law that offered free land to American citizens and immigrants who were willing to start new farms on the Great Plains. Homestead Act.

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Westward Expansion

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  1. Westward Expansion

  2. Area of land set aside for Native Americans

  3. reservation

  4. African American pioneer

  5. Exoduster

  6. Law that offered free land to American citizens and immigrants who were willing to start new farms on the Great Plains.

  7. Homestead Act

  8. Period when thousands of people went West to search for gold.

  9. Gold rush

  10. Great Plains farmer

  11. Sodbuster

  12. Invention that sent messages along wires using electricity.

  13. telegraph

  14. Person who starts a new business hoping to make a profit

  15. entrepreneur

  16. Battle in which Crazy Horse helped the Lakota to victory against the United States forces

  17. Battle of the Little Bighorn

  18. When cowboys guide huge herds of cattle north to new railroad lines extending across the Great Plains

  19. Cattle drives

  20. Settler who claimed land through the Homestead Act

  21. homesteader

  22. New settler

  23. pioneer

  24. Railroad across the continent

  25. Transcontinental railroad

  26. Told Union Pacific workers that they were scaring away the buffalo

  27. Red Cloud

  28. Place where the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific met

  29. Promontory Point, Utah Territory

  30. Horse-drawn wagons that traveled in regular cycles

  31. stagecoach

  32. Invention that sent messages along wires using electricity

  33. telegraph

  34. Developed a way to send telegraph messages

  35. Samuel Morse

  36. Part of the transcontinental railroad that ran east from Sacramento, CA

  37. Central Pacific

  38. Part of the transcontinental railroad that ran west from Omaha, Nebraska

  39. Union Pacific

  40. Major natural obstacle to the Central Pacific railroad

  41. Sierra Nevada

  42. Business that delivered mail from Missouri to California in just ten days

  43. Pony Express

  44. Warned Native American leaders that they could not stop the locomotive

  45. General William Tecumseh Sherman

  46. List four technological inventions that made life easier for those expanding the West

  47. steel plowswindmillsbarbed wiredry farming

  48. Nez Perce leader who tried to flee with his people to Canada

  49. Chief Joseph

  50. First major battle between the US and the Native American that killed many Native Americans

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