| 1860 - 1870's Questions |
1860 - 1870's Answers |
| 1862 |
Homestead Act, Government offered 160 acres of land in the west if you agreed to live on it and farm it for 5 years. |
| Reasons to go West |
Free land, Gold, Adventure |
| Promontory Point, Utah |
Meeting point of Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads |
| Transcontinental Railroad |
Linked East/West coasts, used to move supplies and people. Opened the west to the great migration |
| When was the Transcontinental Railroad completed |
1867 |
| When did US purchase Alaska from Russia |
1867 |
| When did Boss Tweed's political machine come to power in NYC |
1867 |
| What did the political machines provide to poor people |
Services that government could not give them |
| When did steel plows come to the farmers on the Gret Plains |
1870's |
| Steel Plows/ Dry Farming |
Break up the SOD on the great plains, helped keep moisture in the soil |
| Jim Crow Laws |
Existed mainly in the South. Came about after reconstruction, 1877 and lasted til the 1960's. Racial segregation |
| Andrew Carnegie |
Multi millionaire who controlled Seel Industry |
| When did Carnegie bring the Bessemer process to US Steel |
1873 |
| What was the Bessemer Process |
A cheap way to make steel |
| Who invented Barbed Wire |
Joseph Glidden |
| Why was barbed wire important |
Allowed farmers and ranchers to fence in the plains and keep cattle away from crops |
| Who invented the phonograph, light bulb and many other inventions |
Thomas Edison |
| When was the light bulb invented |
1879 |
| When was Barbed wire invented |
1874 |
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