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Growth of new towns and cities
Mining encouraged the growth of towns in the West because many people wanted gold and become rich. Railroads also helped the growth of new towns and cities because it helped people travel long distances in a shorter amount of time, so they could go out West and settle there as well as build towns and cities which would then make the economy go through the roof. -
Cattle Ranching
Long drives moved large herds of livestock to market, to shipping points, or to find fresh pasturage. The practice was introduced to North America during European Colonization. Cattle Ranching is a more extensive way of raising cattle, often times with horses too, with over 1,000 acres of land. -
Jesse James
Jesse James was an American outlaw, gang leader, bank robber, train robber, and murderer from the state of Missouri and the most famous member of the James-Younger Gang. -
Gold and Silver
The large discoveries of gold and silver starting in 1848 and lasting until 1855 was called the California Gold Rush, and it was started by James W Marshall Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California. This brought many people out West in search for gold, and even though many say that it wasn’t worth it, it helped us to expand, as it brought about 300,000 people. Starting with about 200 people in 1846, it grew to about 36,000 in 1852 which caused more roads and towns to be built, leading up to the legis -
Extinction of Buffalo
Native Americans had no horses so they would set there villages on the plains. Buffalo were nomadic animals they wandered around the vast plains. New ranchers wanted the natives and buffalo herds gone. -
Homestead Act
Allowed any settlers even freed slaves to grant land. Ranchers would have fields to let their cattle roam on. Any small farmers were granted this act. -
Transcontinential Railroad system
Helped with settlement in the different regions. It came with the westward expansion.Helped transport goods and materials. The black smoke is a metaphor for what the railroads meant in the civil war. -
Barbed Wire
Invented because railroads couldnt slove the problems of supplying the raw materials indespensible to farming on the prairies. It kept out wild animals and indians. At the time it was 45 cents. -
Wild west shows
William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody opened Buffalo Bills Wild West show in Omaha, Nebraska. It was the first outdoor entertainment that traveled across the country. -
Dawes Acts of 1886
The Dawes Act of 1886 was adopted by Congress 1887, it allowed the president to survey American Indian land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians. The Indians who accepted the allotments and lived separately from the tribe would be granted United States citizenship. But then on June 18, 1934, while President Franklin D. Roosevelt was in office, the US Indian Reorganization Act was passed, it ended allotment and created a “New Deal” for the Indians that included renewing their righ
