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Mail delivery service begun in 1860 that used a relay of riders on horses to carry mail from Missouri to California in 10 days.

• Horse Express
• Rider Relay
• Missouri-California Mail Service
• Pony Express

Machine used to send messages along wires, using electricity.

• telephone
• radio
• television
• telegraph

Railroad that crosses an entire continent. The United States completed its first transcontinental railroad in 1869.

• Transcontinental Railroad
• Cross-country Railway
• Global Train Track
• Intercontinental Railroad

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

• Pioneer Act
• Frontier Act
• Settler Act
• Homestead Act

 Settlers who claimed land in the Great Plains under the Homestead act. 

• Pioneers
• Frontiersmen
• Colonizers
• Homesteaders

Great Plains farmers of the late 1800s who had to cut through the sod, or thick grass, before planting crops. 

• Sodbusters
• Plainsmen
• Sodcutters
• Grassbusters

Name for African American pioneers who moved to the Great Plains after the Civil War. 

• Homesteaders
• Trailblazers
• Exodusters
• Frontiersmen

Way cowboys moved huge herds of cattle from ranches in Texas to railroads in the late 1800s

• Cattle drives
• Rancher marches
• Cowboy caravans
• Cattle walks

 Wire with short points used by farmers for fences. 

• Barbed wire
• Twisted wire
• Razor wire
• Electric wire

Land set aside by the United States government for Native Americans.

• Territory
• Landmark
• Zone
• Reservation