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| Towns that spring up overnight, usually as result of a mineral discovery. Often lawless and chaotic. |
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| Volunteer law enforcement often seen in western boomtowns. Sometimes good, other times not. |
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| Abandoned towns were the residents have left after mines prove unprofitable. |
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| Importance of Railroads in the West |
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| Trains provide supply lines from east to west and back. Raw materials such as lumber, cows, and minerals are shipped east and finished goods (furniture, tools, etc) are shipped west. |
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| Transcontinental Railroad |
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| U.S. builds a railroad across the entire country linking the east coast to the west coast. Built by the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific. |
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| Railroad company building the transcontinental railroad west from Omaha and using Irish and African-American workers. |
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| Railroad company building the transcontinental railroad east from Sacramento. Used Chinese labor and owned by Leland Stanford. |
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| Meeting point of the two railroads completing the transcontinental railroad. The golden spike was hammered in here. |
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People move west
Movement of Goods
Demand for steel and lumber to build trains and track increases
New towns spring up
Time Zones created to create uniform train schedules
U.S. becomes more uniform as people can share goods and ideas |
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| Large cattle raised for beef in Texas |
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| Moving the cattle from open ranges in Texas to trains in Oklahoma. |
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| Mud homes used in the plains by settlers |
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| Federal government gives 160 acres to western settlers who promise to live there for five years. Gets people to move west. |
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| Troubles on the Plains with Native Americans |
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| As people expand west, Native Americans see lands/buffalo taken away from them. Leads to clashes which are sometimes violent. |
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| The bison served the Plains Indians as food, clothing and shelter. Whites seek to kill off the animal to starve out the Native Americans in the Plains. |
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| Lands on which Native Americans were forced to live. Mad it hard o hunt buffalo. |
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| What is now Oklahoma was promised to Indians, then taken away. |
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| location of the fight between George Custer's men and the Sioux Indians. Custer and his men are killed. |
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| Failed attempt to help Indians by redistributing their reservation lands to individual families. |
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| A farmers organization similar to a union. Seeks to aid issues of dropping prices and little focus on problems of farmers. |
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| Party of the farmers and Grangers. Think Wizard of Oz! |
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