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10 Cards in this Set
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Transcontinental Railroad
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Rail line that spands the continent
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Leland Stanford
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owned the central pacific railroad
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Chinese and Irish Workers
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traveled from homland to america to search for gold and work for the railroad, get 1 dollar a day
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Battle of Little Big Horn
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on June 1876, under orders to force the native americans on to reservations, colonel Geogre Armstrong Custer entered the Little Bighorn Valley in Montana. All of Custer's men died, but the vitory of Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse was fleeting.
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Sodbusters
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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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Longhorn Steer
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The hrons of longhorn cattle can be six feet wide or more. The cattle use them for both attack and defense
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Vaquero
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Spanish word cowboy
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Cattle trail
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herding and moving of cattle over long distances, usually to railroads
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Homestead Act
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It pfferend a 160 acre plot of free land , if you live there for 5 years. 1862
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