Chapter 16

Was meant to connect the East and the West, and was used to carry people and goods across the country in just a few days.

• transcontinental railroad

• union pacific railroad workers

• Central pacific railroad workers

• telegraph

Machine used to send messages along wires using electricity. Preferred by people over the Pony Express.

• Telegraph

• Pony Express

• Stagecoach

• Morse Code

Mail delivery service that used a relay of riders on horses to carry mail from Missouri to California.

• Stagecoach

• Telegraph

• Pony Express

• Morse Coade

Had to blast tunnels through the mountains to build the transcontinental railroad..

• Lakota

• Central Pacific Railroad workers

• Union Pacific Railroad workers

• Telegraph

Came into conflict with Native Americans while building the transcontinental railroad.

• Telegraph

• Union Pacific Railroad workers

• Central Pacific Railroad workers

• History

1862 law offering free land to pioneers willing to start farms on the Great Plains.

• Sod

• Homesteaders

• Homestead Act

• Morse Code

Hardships of farming on the Great Plains

• Israelite

• Dust Bowl

• Harsh weather conditions, heat, droughts, prairie fires, locusts, sod had to be broken to prepare fields for crops.

• Sod Houses

The reason many Europeans moved to the Great Plains.

• Europeans

• Good Land

• Morse Code

• Nez Perce

African American pioneers who started "journey to freedom" by settling in Kansas and Nebraska.

• Europeans settlers

• The promise of good land

• Exodusters

• Kansas or NEbraska

Way cowboys moved large herds of cattle from ranches in Texas to railroads in the late 1800s in order to sell them in the East.

• Towns

• Longhorn

• Cattle Drives

• Cowboys