| A | B |
|---|
| transcontinental railroad | a railroad that crosses an entire continent |
| Pacific Railroad Act | offered two companies gov't loans & free land to build a railroad |
| Charles Crocker | under his direction the Central Pacific Railroad would be extended eastward from Sacramento, CA |
| cattle drive | a long journey taken by cowboys to herd (drive) cattle from ranches in Texas north on trails leading to railroad |
| railhead | towns that developed along railroad lines |
| Nat Love | a cowboy and writer who had been a former slave |
| Joseph McCoy | built stockyards and a hotel in Abilene, Kansas |
| sod | the thickly tangled roots of tall buffalo grass |
| Helen Hunt Jackson | wrote a book criticizing how the U.S. treated Native Americans |
| Henry Adams | an African American who made speeches encouraging other African Americans to leave the South |
| reservation | a territory reserved, or set aside, for Native Americans |
| time zone | one of the 24 areas into which Earth is divided for measuring time |
