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Mining encouraged the growth of new towns and cities because people new that the large amounts of gold would mean more money for the area.
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In the migration of settlers to the west, fur skin and meat trade was a large demand in the plains, resulting in the slaughtering of hundreds of millions of Buffalo by the 1890's.
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The act encouraged western migration by settlers by offering 160 acres of public land. The settlers in return had to pay a small filng fee and had to live there for 5 continous years.
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The area of present day Butte, California was an uninhabited peice of land that sits on a "Volcanic ring". Two prospecters then discovered the gold, and the area around it exploded with buisness.
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20 million cattle were herded from Texas to railheads in Kansas for shipments to places like Chicago and multiple points in the east.
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Barbed wire is a type of steel wire fencing made of sharp points or edges arranged in measured in lines.
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A continuos network of railroad that goes over a cotinental land mass with stops at certain points at different oceans or continental borders.
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James was an American bank robber, murderer, train robber, and gang leader in the state of Missouri, and managed to be the most famous member of the James-Younger gang.
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The first typical wild west show was Buffalo Bill's starting in 1883 and ending in 1913. These shows romanticized the typical view of the west in the 1800's.
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The act authorized the American INdian tribal land to be divided into sections for individual Indians. The individuals who accepted the land grant lived seprate from the tribe and were granted Citizenship.
