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Jesse James
he was a famous, gang leader, bank robber, train robber, and murderer from the state of Missouri -
Homestead Act
the homstead act was if you moved to the west and had it for five years you automaticly get a deed for it. -
shift from “long drive” to “cattle ranching
long driving is driving cattle, in a long line. later on they switched from that to taking small groups of cattle instead. -
discoveries of large amounts of gold and silver.
Gold in calfornia! boom people across america travel to get a peice of that action. -
transcontinental railroad system
train tracks are spreading through out amurica! the Central Pacific Railroad and Union Pacific Railroad work and combined both east and west of america and ended it with with the last golden spike. -
barbed wire
was made for keep catle in a cirtain area and if they tried to excape the fence will hurt them. -
Wild West Shows
they were shows about the wild west and they would entertain people with this show.EX buffilo bill. -
growth of new towns and cities to support cattle, mining, and farming industries.
because of all the new land america got we expaneded like nobody bisnus.(yes i spelled bissnuss wrong.) also in calfornia there was glod and that ment settlement in the west. -
Dawes Act
Its says what the indeans can do and cant do, what land they have, and what would happen if sombody adoupted a indean baby what rights they would have. -
Extintion of buffalo
buffalo used to be romeing all over america back in 1880 but when we americans killed alot they almost went extint.Approximately 500,000 bison currently exist on non-public lands and approximately 30,000 on public lands.
