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| Pony Express | Service that used riders on horses to deliver mail from Missouri to California |
| telegraph | Device that sends messages through wires using electricity |
| Trascontinental Railroad | linked the east and west together so that goods could be shipped and people could travel |
| Great Plains | A region of dry grassland in the middle of the United States |
| Homestead Act | Law signed by Abraham Lincoln offering land to people for $10 |
| barbed wire | Material used to build fences by Great Plains farmers |
| cattle drive | Method cowboys used to move large herds of cattle |
| Gold Rush | Caused thousands of people to go to California to get rich |
| reservation | land where the government forced Native Americans to live |
| Battle of Little Big Horn | Lakota victory over the United States soldiers on June 25, 1876 |
