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| reservation | a territory set aside for Native Americans |
| property rights | the right to own or use something, such as land, for profit, gain, or sale |
| cattle drive | a long journey taken by cowboys to drive cattle from Texas ranches to railroads |
| transcontinental railroad | a train that crosses an entire continent |
| Homestead Act | An act that gave pioneers 160 acres of land wiht the promise that they would make improvements on it after 5 years |
| Grenville Dodge | The leader of the Union Pacific Railroad |
| Charles Crocker | the leader of the Central Pacific Railroad |
| homesteaders | poeple who claimed land under the Homestead Act |
| sodbusters | a nickname for settlers who farmer the tough grasslands of the Great Plains |
| soddies | prairie homes built out of sod |
| exodusters | African American pioneers who left the South to settle in Kansas |
| James Oliver | the inventor of the chilled-steel plow |
| Joseph Glidden | the inventor of barbed wire |
| Henry Adams | a former cicil war soldier who encouraged African Americans to leave the South and head west |
| Custer's Last Stand | another name for the Battle of Little Big Horn |
| Crazy Horse | A Lakota Chief who helper Sitting Bull defeat Custer |
| Sitting Bull | a Lakota Chief who helped Crazy Horse defeat Custer |
| General Custer | An American general who was defeated by Native Americans in a battle at Little Big Horn |
| Chief Joseph | a Nez Pierce Indian chief |
| Nat Love | an African American cowboy |
| railhead | a cattle town that developed near the railroad |
| stockyards | cattle pens built next to the railroad |
| cowtown | towns that developed along the cattle trails |
| Joseph McCoy | a rancher who developed stockyards near railroads |
| Pacific Railroad Act | an act that offered two companies government loans and free land to build a transcontinental railroad |
