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The Gilded Age

Industrial Growth in Americalate 1800¡¯s to early 1900¡¯s

Westward Expansion, The

Transcontinental Railway, and

Native Americans

Civil War and the

Transcontinental Railroad

?Government turned towards National

Transportation

?Kansas-Nebraska Act (what did it do?)

proposed to open up Nebraska to development

and the building of railway lines

?What political party controlled the national

government during the Civil War and

immediately after the Civil War?

?Republicans:

Republicans

and the

Railroads

?Free from State¡¯s Rights Southern

Democrats, began passing legislation

that would promote the

Transcontinental Railway

?Subsidies (grant of money to help

investors build the railways cheaply) and

Western land grants to Railway developers

(Pacific Railway Act)

?Sold land to gain money to purchase

tracks

?Promoted Westward Expansion

through free land grants (Homestead Act)

gaining support and need for national

transportation

Effect of Transcontinental

?Created a national

Railroad

market and economy,

linking the East and

West

?Farmers and Ranchers

could sell their products

to the large markets of

the East without spoilage

?Easter Industries could

easily get cheap natural

resources from the West

?Increased migration to

the West

?Immigrants such as Irish

and Chinese moved to

work on the railway

lines

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