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Passed on May 20, 1862, the Homestead Act accelerated the settlement of the western territory by granting adult heads of families 160 acres of surveyed public land for a minimal filing fee and 5 years of continuous residence on that land.
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The Transcontinental Railroad established a permanent link between the East and West coasts. This created new markets for the goods being produced as a result of industrialization. This led to the Gilded Age which gets its name from the wealth that is created during this time and the way of life this wealth supported, although not everyone in this period enjoyed the privileges that wealth can provide.
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The Dawes Act of 1887 authorized the federal government to break up tribal lands by partitioning them into individual plots. Only those Native Americans who accepted the individual allotments were allowed to become US citizens
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The Klondike Gold Rush was a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon, in north-western Canada, between 1896 and 1899.
