| A | B |
|---|
| Promontory Point, UT | where golden spike was driven |
| Central Pacific R.R. | went from CA eastward |
| Union Pacific R.R. | went from NE westward |
| Chicago | center of the meat packing industry |
| Sioux | plains Indian tribe |
| Gen. George Custer | killed at Little Big Horn |
| Chief Joseph | "I'll fight no more forever." |
| Wounded Knee | last battle (massacre) of the plains wars |
| barbed wire | fenced off the range |
| buffalo | supplied all the Indians' needs |
| Homestead Act | gave cheap land to settlers |
| sodbusters | plains farmers |
| steel plows | broke through the tough western sod |
| dry farming | farming method suited to the western climate |
| sod houses | built because there were no trees in the plains |
| beef cattle | these animals ate the grass on the plains |
| windmills | pumped water out of the ground |
| railroads | helped people get across the plains faster |
| Great Plains | area with flat land gradually rising from east to west |
| Great Plains | area with land eroded by wind and water |
| Great Plains | area with low rainfall |
| Great Plains | area with frequent dust storms |
| land | a reason for going west |
| technological advances | a reason for going west |
| transcontinental railroad | a reason for going west |
| wealth: gold and silver | a reason for going west |
| adventure | a reason for going west |
| new start for former slaves | a reason for going west |
