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A railroad built from east to west in the United States that spanned from New York to California.

transcontinental railroad

This abundant resource in the great plains made it easy for ranchers to start and sustain a Cattle farm.

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Many workers from this pacific country immigrated to the United States to work on railroad construction in the 1800s.

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The Idea that the United States was destined to expand and encompass the entire continent of North America.

manifest destiny

This man unearthed gold while constructing a sawmill in California’s Central River Valley, which jump-started the California Gold Rush.

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a body of people bound together by blood ties

who were socially, politically, and religiously

organized, who lived together in a defined

territory and who spoke a common language or

dialect.

Tribe

Small parcels of land on which Native American people were

supposed to live.

reservation

Faction

A small organized dissenting group within a larger one especially politics.es

secession

The action of withdrawing formally from membership of a federation or body, especially a political state.

Sectionalism

Loyalty to ones own region rather than the country as a whole

Lobbyist

A person who takes part in an organized attempt to influence legislators

Citizenship

Membership or alligence to an independent nation

Wounded knee massacre

The deadliest mass shooting in American history killing nearly three hundred Lakota people shot and killed by the American army.