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shift from “long drive” to “cattle ranching”
Cattle drives were a major economic activity in the American west, The long distances covered, the need for periodic rests by riders and animals, and the establishment of railheads led to the development of "cow towns" across the American West. Because of extensive treatment of cattle drives in fiction and film, the cowboy became the worldwide iconic image of the American. -
discoveries of large amounts of gold and silver
The California Gold rush when they found A large amount of Gold and silve and was called the 49ers -
Jesse James
Through 1860 to 1882 Jesse gang was the most feared around. He was responsible for more than 20 bank and train robberies and murbers of countless individual who stood in there way -
Homestead Act of 1862
It encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 arcersof public land, In exchange homesteaders paid a small fee and were required to complete five years of residance before ownership -
Barbed wirer
Invented by Micael Kelly, it was made with points affixed to twisted strands of wire. It was was used to keep people out and animals in. -
growth of new towns and cities to support cattle, mining, and farming industries
a large herd was driven from Texas to Sedalia, Missouri, farmland that farmers understandably did not want trampled and grazed. There were also bushwhackers and cattle thieves to contend with. But the era of the long cattle drive had begun. -
transcontinental railroad system
It was also known as the Pacific Railroad for a while and later on as the overland Route. It revolutionzied the American economy becuase the transport of goods was made much faster, cheaper and more flexible -
Wild West Shows
Were traveling vaudeville performances in the United States and Europe. -
Dawes Act of 1886
It was designed to encourage the breakep of the tribes and promote the assimlation of Indains into America Society. It will be the major Indain policy until the 1930s. -
extinction of buffalo in 1800s
Bision were hunted to extinction in the late 19th century primarily by market hunters and to few hundred by the mid-1880s, they were hunted for their skins, with the rest of the animal left behind. After the animal rotted their bones were collected and shipped back east in large quantities.
