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10 Cards in this Set
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Transcontinental Railroad
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rail line that spans the continent
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Chinese and Irish workers
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immigrants that helped build the transcontinental RR
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Battle of Little big horn
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Colonol Custer although outnumbered, attacked a band of Siuox and cheyennes. Custer and all of his men died
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Sodbuster
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Farmer on the great plains in the late 1800's
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Cattle kingdom
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region dominated by the cattle industry and its ranches, trails and cow towns
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Leland Stanford
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Won the right to build a rr eastward from sacramento
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Longhorn steer
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Were replaced by other cows because they caught fewer diseases and had more meat
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Vaquero
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Espanol word for cowboy
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Homestead act
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offered a 160 acre plot of land to anyone who was willing to live on it for 5 years
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Cattle trail
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the trail that the cowboys took to move the cattle to the cattle drives
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