1862 - 1920
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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.
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| Reasons to go West | Free land, Gold, Adventure
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| Promontory Point, Utah | Meeting point of Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads
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| Transcontinental Railroad | Linked East/West coasts, used to move supplies and people. Opened the west to the great migration
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| When was the Transcontinental Railroad completed | 1867
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| When did US purchase Alaska from Russia | 1867
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| When did Boss Tweed's political machine come to power in NYC | 1867
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| What did the political machines provide to poor people | Services that government could not give them
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| When did steel plows come to the farmers on the Gret Plains | 1870's
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| Steel Plows/ Dry Farming | Break up the SOD on the great plains, helped keep moisture in the soil
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| Jim Crow Laws | Existed mainly in the South. Came about after reconstruction, 1877 and lasted til the 1960's. Racial segregation
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| Andrew Carnegie | Multi millionaire who controlled Seel Industry
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| When did Carnegie bring the Bessemer process to US Steel | 1873
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| What was the Bessemer Process | A cheap way to make steel
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| Who invented Barbed Wire | Joseph Glidden
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| Why was barbed wire important | Allowed farmers and ranchers to fence in the plains and keep cattle away from crops
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| Who invented the phonograph, light bulb and many other inventions | Thomas Edison
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| When was the light bulb invented | 1879
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| When was Barbed wire invented | 1874
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