AMERICA: WESTWARD EXPANSION
This is when America starts to expand its nation and find its place in the world.
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- Trail used by hundreds of thousands of American pioneers in the mid-1800s to emigrate west
- Towns that had many Americans settling in because of the gold rush. Experienced economic growth
- Law that offered Americans and immigrants to start new farms in the Great Plains.
- A movement where Americans went out to settle where gold was found.
- The towns after all the gold was found
- The land given to the Native Americans
- Farmers that had to bust through the sod in the Great Plains in order to plant crops
- A railroad that span across the continent
- African Americans from the South who went to Kansas in the 1870s
- An act that led to the construction of the Transcontinental railroad
- Pushed westward from Omaha, Nebraska, in 1865
- Began in Sacramento, California and went east
- To make rail service safer and more reliable, the ARA divided the country into four time zones
- American Railway Association
- A construction company set ub by several stockholders; It caused corruption in the railroad industry
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