WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
WESTWARD EXPANSION
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by providing sharecroppers a means of travel
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by providing farmers with the means of getting their crops to market
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by providing Native Americans a means to sell fur
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by providing the bison a place to roam freely
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Detailed explanation-1: -The railroads created bureaus and sent agents to the East and to Europe to attract potential settlers on these lands. Portraying the West as a land of limitless opportunity, the bureaus offered long-term loans and free transportation to the West.
Detailed explanation-2: -The railroads provided the efficient, relatively cheap transportation that made both farming and milling profitable. They also carried the foodstuffs and other products that the men and women living on the single-crop bonanza farms needed to live.
Detailed explanation-3: -Gold rush and mining opportunities (silver in Nevada) The opportunity to work in the cattle industry; to be a “cowboy” Faster travel to the West by railroad; availability of supplies due to the railroad. The opportunity to own land cheaply under the Homestead Act.
Detailed explanation-4: -How was the West transformed economically and socially in this period? Farming and improved farming, More Land, Small farmers oriented to national and international markets, and giant agricultural enterprises.