Our time has finally arrived‚ President Lincoln has finally got the Homestead Act passed‚ and it will be great for this country that Congress is granting land owned by the federal government proving farmers with the opportunity to own land out west. We need to ensure our stockpile of gold reserve is on hand; because we don’t need any setbacks with the currency: we must have the ability to provide loans to these farmers and former freed slaves. (The Homestead was widely successful because it helped
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Credit Mobilier (1867)- Credit Mobilier of America was a construction company working on building the Transcontinental Railroad but inflated their prices by as much as 348%. The scandal they soon became associated with arose when they bribed congressmen with stock to make them look the other way. This was common behind closed doors of the Gilded Age but what made it so known is that politicians got caught in the mess. Credit Mobilier is scored as the least bad because it wasn’t particularly exceptional
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manufacturing processes that decreased the production cost of items and therefore increase the size of the market. New technology‚ such as improvements to the railroad‚ made it easy to get raw materials to the cities and get finished products to other markets. Overland mail used to take 180 days‚ but with the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad in 1869‚ the time was cut down to only 7 days. After this‚ the telegram made communication almost instant by using a system of dots and dashes called Morse
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CHAPTER 17 Frederick Jackson Turner’s Frontier Thesis : western settlement had had an extraordinary impact on U.S. social‚ political‚ and economic development "Buffalo" Bill Cody : a successful show that popularized Wild West shows‚ it consisted of a former Pony Express rider and Indian fighter‚ and the hero of popular dime novels for children. This show romanticized the West and the life of the cowboy. :"Buffalo Bill;" Killed over 4000 buffalo in 18 months while employed by the Kansas
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to the integrity of the political and economic areas of America. Unlike the boom during this era‚ the time period following the Civil War caused an outburst in the railroad circuit throughout the nation that was easily susceptible to the radical graft presiding in the country at the time. By 1884‚ over four transcontinental railroads were built. With all but the Great Northern receiving land grants‚ the ease with which to lay the rails grew and grew. The significance of this peace time undertaking
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beginnings. She was a woman who was also a slave but freed herself. She not only freed herself but she freed hundred of slaves as well. Even with all the knowledge of what it was like to be in captivity she still went back. She developed the underground railroad that would take people to their
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miners and plains indians to conflict. Another vital reason for why the plains indians lost control is the development of the railroads (transcontinental railroads). The railroads opened up the west to the homesteaders‚ ranchers and the buffalo hunters. For the Plains Indians‚ however‚ the railroad was disastrous. Their buffalo were decimated by hunters who used the railroad to ship the hides and buffalos bones to the East. As the homesteaders flooded in‚ the Plains Indians were forced to give up
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largest acquisition of U.S. territory. As americans started to search for new lands in Asia‚ Asians Immigrants set there eyes on America. After the Annexation of california‚ Aaron H. Palmer proposed chinese laborers to be imported to build transcontinental railroad and also to cultivate the lands of california. Around 1849‚ Chinese migrants began arriving in America. The chinese migrated to the states for their own reasons which were getting away from the intense conflicts in china caused by british
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When America comes to mind‚ you usually think of freedom or opportunity. That was exactly what the frontier provided. The frontier came to symbolize America for numerous of reasons. The frontier gave everyone opportunity’s including black‚ female‚ or even deprived white. With the westward expansion‚ you were allowed to build your own empire no matter your primary status. Especially with the Homestead Act now in place‚ it made the West very promising. The Homestead Act was an act that assured 160
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own from the East‚ single women and former slaves came to meet the requirements” (Weiser). The pacific railway act of 1862 provided the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroad companies with federal land grants and funds to construct a transcontinental railway that would unite the country as one. With the completion of the railroad‚ industry had the opportunity to rise across America because the transportation time of goods‚ capital‚ and people
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