WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
WESTWARD EXPANSION
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attracting immigrant settlers
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providing a means of travel
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promoting the Homestead Act
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transporting agricultural goods
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Detailed explanation-1: -Which of the following was an effect of the expansion of railroads in the West? Railroads led to the discovery of profitable minerals.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -The Homestead Act encouraged western migration by providing settlers with 160 acres of land in exchange for a nominal filing fee.
Detailed explanation-4: -The sparsely populated western regions of the continent became folded into a nation with enormous potential for power. The hundreds of thousands of settlers who moved west established new communities. New territories gave the country access to greater natural resources and the Pacific trade.