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16 Cards in this Set
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Transcontinental Railroad
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allowed goods and people to travel across the country in one week
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Telegraph
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Sent electronic messages across the country along the railroad
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Union Pacific Railroad
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Omaha, Nebraska; labor; Irish immigrants
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Central Pacific Railroad
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Sacramento, California; labor; mostly Chinese; Sierra Nevada mountains
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Promontory Point, Utah
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Meeting of the two RR groups, golden spike
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Homesteaders
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Challenges; locusts (grasshoppers), harsh weather, thick sod
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Homestead Act of 1862
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Must farm land for 5 years, $10 filing fee, 160 acres
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Exodusters
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Freedmen and their families seeking refuge in the West to escape continued discrimination in the East (Jim Crow Laws, Separate but Equal)
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Cattle Drives - West
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Cowboys, supply and demand, five supply, high demand, reasonable price (four dollars)
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Cattle Drives - East
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High demand, low supply, high price, ($40)
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Western Trail
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Dodge City
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Gold Rush
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Forty-Niners, Sutter's Mill
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Boomtowns
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Created because of the discovery of gold/silver and along the railroad
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Levi Strauss
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Blue jeans
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The quest for gold helped to...
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settle the west.
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3 Famous Native Americans
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Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, Chief Joseph
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