Chapter 9 Vocabulary Practice

Transcontinental

• All the way across the state

• All the way across the county

• All the way across the continent

• All the way across Havre

right-of-way

• the legal right to take someone's land

• the legal right to cross someone else's property

• the legal right to

• legal

Free land that the federal government gives to a company, organization, or state

• Land Grant

• Land Gift

• Clout

• Embossed

Organizations of employees that bargain with employers

• Land Grants

• Clout

• Embossed

• Labor Unions

Investors who finance large projects

• chartered

• clout

• financiers

• telegraph

Influnce

• Chartered

• Clout

• Embossed

• transcontinental

Pressed with design

• Telegraph

• Chartered

• Influence

• Embossed

Reserved

• Telegraph

• Chartered

• Influence

• Land Grants

An electric message system that transmitted coded signals along a wire

• Telegraph

• Financiers

• Clout

• Chartered

Developed its industries on a large scale

• Clout

• Financiers

• Chartered

• Industrialized