| 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 |
