ChooChoo USA
Transcontinental Railroad
A long, long journey Cowboys took to herd cattle from ranches to the railroads.
Cattle Drive
Houses that were made from sod
Soddies
Rights to own or use something- such as land.
Property Rights
A territory reserved or set aside for Native Americans
This act offered loans to companies, governments and free land to build a railroad across the US.
Pacific Railroad Act
A town that sprang up along a new railroad line
Railhead
Formerly enslaved people who left the South searching for the “Promised Land” in Kansas
Exodusters
Gave 160 acres of public land to any adult man or widow if he or she agreed to farm the land for 5 years
Homestead Act
He did not believe that anyone could sell land.
Crazy Horse
Leader of the Union Pacific Railroad. He would lay the track westward from Omaha, Nebraska.
Grenville Dodge
A fenced-in area to hold the cattle (Cattle Pen)
Stockyards
The nickname given to new settlers because they needed to break through tough grass to plant crops.
Sodbusters
He invented the barbed wire.
Joseph Glidden
It was to be the last major Native American victory on the Plains.
Custer’s Last Stand
A merchant who would lead the Central Pacific Railroad eastward from Sacramento, California.
Charles Crocker
A town that was developed for cowboys that were passing through.
Cowtown
The author of the Little House on the Prairie series.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
He was a leader who expressed great concern for the welfare of his people.
Chief Joseph
He built stockyards or cattle pens near the railroads
Joseph McCoy
An African American once enslaved, he became a cowboy.
Nat Love
James Oliver
Author who spoke out against how the United States treated the Native Americans
Helen Hunt Jackson