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An organized thief, train robber, and bank robber. He jioned the confederacy when he was 16 years old and lived as a confederate soldier for years.
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Was signed into the laws by Abraham Lincoln in 1862. Encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land. the migrators had to forfill a five year residency before ownership of the property. While paying a small fee for filing the land.
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The transcontiental railroad was esablished for settlers and goods to get from the east of the country out to the west of the country. This boomed after ther finding of gold at Sutters hill in northern California.
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Traveling shows in the us and europe such as buffalo bill.
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20 million cattle took off from Texas to railheads in Kansas.
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Forced people to treat Native Americans as individuals instead of a member of a tribe.
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Farmers used barbed wire fencing to keep animals from escape and keep other creaturesa out. Also they used it to mark there property lines.