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6 Cards in this Set
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Transcontinental Railroad
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A rail line that spans the continent
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leland stanford
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him and his partners won the right to build a line eastward from scaromento.
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Battle of little big horn
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In june 1867,under orders to force the native americans on to a reservation, colonel Gorge armstrong custer entered the little big horn valley in Montana territory. Although outnumbered he attacked a large band of sioux and cheyennes.
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sodbuster
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farmer on the great plains in the late 1800s
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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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vaquero
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spanish word for cowboy
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