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23 Cards in this Set
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transcontinental
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People could travel and send good across the continent
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homestead
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Settlers paid a small amount of money for a home and land on the Great Plains
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railhead
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these towns were located at the beginning or end of railroad tracks.
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habitat
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the grasslands of a plain.
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Predjudice
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it is an unfair, negative opinion that could lead to unjust treatment
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Exoduster
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a book of the bible, tells the story of how the people of Israel left Egypt.
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drought
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its a long period with little or no rain.
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Samuel Morse
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in 1844, this man sent a message from Washington,D.C., to Baltimore, Maryland, in seconds.
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telegraph
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a machine that sends electric signals over wire telegraph lines
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Pacific Railway Act
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in 1862, what did Congress pass?
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Pacific Railway Act
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the law that said the government could loan money to the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific railroad companies
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Chinese immigrants
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when the Central Pacific railroad company ran low on workers, who did they hire?
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prejudice
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the Chinese faced what?
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Promontory Point, Utah
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where the Central Pacific and Union Pacific meet?
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morse code
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a code of dots and dashes to send such messages
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Transcontinental railroad
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built by immigrants, hard and dangerous work, shipped farm goods to markets, connected East and west.
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Great Plains
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the landform in the middle of the United States
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Homestead Act in 1862
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farmers began to settle the Great Plains after Congress passed this law
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Benjamin '' Pap '' Singleton
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he was African American who visited Kansas in 1873. he said that African Americans needed to leave the South because '' Starvation is staring us up in the face.
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Exoduster
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what did African American settlers call themselves.
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sodbusters
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name given to Great Plains farmers because they had to break through so much soil, called sod, in order to farm.
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sodhouse
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where did the Great Plains farmers live?
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wells or streams and springs
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where did farmers get their water from?
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