braden ss ch 16
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- homesteaders
- settlers who claimed land through the Homestead Act
- cattle drives
- way to get cattle to the railroad so they could be sold in the East
- Golden Spike
- connected the two railroad across the United States at Promontory Point, Utah
- Homestead Act
- an act that gave free land to pioneers willing to start farms in the Great Plains
- Abilene, Kansas
- cowtown where trains picked up cattle to take them East to be sold
- reservation
- area of land set aside for Native Americans by the United States government
- exodusters
- African Americans who left the eastern United States for Kansas and Nebraska
- sodbusters
- farmers in the Great Plains who dug through thick roots to plant crops
- "Great American Desert"
- name for the Great Plains region
- transcontinental railroad
- a railroad across the continent
- Battle of Little Bighorn
- a battle for land between United States soldiers and the Lakota people
- barbed wire
- a twisted wire with sharp points
- Chief Joseph
- Nez Perce leader who didn't want his people to move on to a reservation
- Pony Express
- a mail service in which a series of riders carried mail on horseback between Missouri and California
- General George Custer
- US soldier who fought at the Battle of Little Bighorn
- Crazy Horse
- a Lakota leader who defeated Custer at the Battle of Little Bighorn
- Lakota
- Native American tribe in the Black Hills of South Dakota
- buffalo
- Indians used for food, clothing and shelter...US government wanted people to kill
- cattle drives
- when cowboys drove, or moved, huge herds of cattle to railroad lines
- telegraph
- a machine that sent messages across wires using electiricity