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Civil War
• American Civil War (push)- between the union and confederates between 1861 & 1865
Homestead act
• Homestead Act (1862)- Encouraged people to move West beach family get 160 acres of land. Land given for free of they lived & farmed it five years.
Timber Culture Act
•Timber Culture Act (1873)- gave settlers a further 160 acres of free land ( provided they planted 40 acres with trees.
Desert Land Act
• Desert Land Act (1877)- Gave settlers right to buy 640 acres cheaply In areas where lack of rainfall was a problem
Trans- Continental Railroad
• Trans-Continent Railroad- 1860s all railroads end in Mississippi. 1866- Pacific Union Railroad company laying track at Omaha
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