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This railroad company built west from the Missouri River area toward California.
What is Union Pacific Railroad?
This invention allowed people to send messages over wires using electricity.
What is the telegraph?
President Lincoln signed this law to encourage people to settle and farm western land.
What is the Homestead act?
sodbusters removed the thick ____,
What is sod?
People who traveled west hoping to find gold were known by this name.
Who were miners/prospectors?
This railroad company built east from Sacramento, California.
What is Central Pacific Railroad?
Before faster transcontinental communication, this service carried mail by horseback across the country in about 10 days.
What is the Pony Express?
Settlers who built homes out of blocks of prairie grass and soil were known by this nickname.
Who were sodbusters?
Homesteaders faced harsh _____,______,____,_____ that could ruin crops.
What are grasshoppers, harsh weather, droughts, fires?
Towns that quickly developed near newly discovered mines were called these.
What are boomtowns?
The Central Pacific relied heavily on immigrants from this country to build the railroad.
Who were the Chinese Immigrants?
Building the Transcontinental Railroad made travel across the country faster and made it easier to transport these two things.
What are people/goods/resources?
Homesteaders used this to build houses mainly because wood building material was scarce on the Great Plains.
What is sod?
A lack of trees on the Great Plains affected settlers by making it difficult to obtain this common building material.
What is wood/trees?
When mines closed and people moved away, abandoned boomtowns became these.
What are boomtowns?
The Union Pacific relied heavily on immigrants from this country.
Who were the Irish immigrants?
Railroad companies encouraged immigration by doing this to attract European workers.
What is advertising/recruiting in Europe and offering jobs or transportation?
This invention helped settlers fence their farms cheaply and keep roaming animals away from their crops.
What is barbed wire?
Extreme temperatures, droughts, storms and limited water are examples of how this affected settlers moving West.
What is natural environment?
These workers lived and worked on ranches and drove cattle over long distances.
Who were cowboys?
This mountain range was the major natural obstacle faced by the Central Pacific.
What are the Sierra Nevada Mountains?
Western railroads helped businesses in the East by giving them access to these.
What are new western markets and resources?
Settlers preferred this than wooden fences because it was cheaper and this resource was scarce on the Plains.
What is barbed wire?
This group of African Americans moved west after the Civil War seeking land, opportunity and greater freedom.
Who were exodusters?
This development helped bring the era of the long cattle drives to an end by dividing open land into fenced areas.
What is barbed wire?