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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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Leland stanford
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he and his parents won the right to build the line east of sacromento
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Chinese and Irish Workers
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made up a large amount of rthe workforce working on the transcontiental railroad
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Battle of Little Bighorn
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a battle in which all Colonel George Armstrong Custer and his men were killed by Sioux and Cheyenne Indians
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Sodbuster
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a farmer on the Great Plains in the late 1800s
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Cattle Kingdom
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a region dominated by the cattle industry and its ranches, trails and cow towns
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Longhorn Steer
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oxen with long horns across their heads
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Vaquero
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spanish word for cowhand
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Cattle Trails
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paths cattle traveled along during the cattle kingdom
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Homestead Acts
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offered 160 acres to anyone that will reside the land for a minimum of five years
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