WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
WESTWARD EXPANSION
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improved methods of transportation
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withdraw of the troops from the South
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the passage of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments
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development of factories in the South
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -Westward expansion began in earnest in 1803. Thomas Jefferson negotiated a treaty with France in which the United States paid France $15 million for the Louisiana Territory – 828, 000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River – effectively doubling the size of the young nation.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Homestead Act, passed in 1862, allowed settlers to claim 160 acres of land for free. Another important factor was completion of the first transcontinental railroad in 1869; the railroad led to much more rapid western migration and also facilitated economic development.
Detailed explanation-4: -Five of the reasons for westward expansion included the further expansion of railroads by the 1850s, the concept of Manifest Destiny as a reason for westward movement, cheap land, the marketing of the west as an area of fruitfulness and opportunity and mining developments in gold and silver.