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1860 - 1870's Questions
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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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