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Who built theTranscontinental railroad? How? |
1862, the Pacific Railroad Act chartered the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific Railroad Companies, and tasked them with building a transcontinental railroad that would link the United States from east to west. Over the next seven years, the two companies would race toward each other. They met at Promontory, Utah, on May 10, 1869. |
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How did the federal transportation policy promote westward movement? |
transportation going to west meant that the settlers would be able to get out there faster. Also helped to form the boomtowns |
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Contrast Native Americans' view and Settlers' view of westward movement. |
NA: their lands be eaten up by greedy settlers, they saw their food supply dwindle to nothing by hunters (Like Teddy Roosevelt) shooting them for the sport and leaving them lay, they watched their families die of starvation and cold as they were forced more and more off the land their ancestors lived on for generations S: the west as a place for continuing their prosperity. For those who had no wealth, the west was a second chance--a fresh start and a optimistic future, their "Manifest Destiny." |
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Define: Homestead |
(as provided by the federal Homestead Act of 1862) an area of public land in the West (usually 160 acres) granted to any US citizen willing to settle on and farm the land for at least five years. |
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Define : Transcontinental railroad |
A train route across the United States, finished in 1869. It was the project of two railroad companies: the Union Pacific built from the east, and the Central Pacific built from the west. The two lines met in Utah. |
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Define: Government boarding school |
A boarding school is a school where some or all pupils study and live during the school year with their fellow students and possibly teachers or principals. |
