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| Pony Express | System of messengers that carried mail from Missouri to California |
| Comstock Lode | One of first and most important mining discoveries. Both silver and gold. |
| Homestead Act | Gave government-owned land to small farmers in exhange for a fee |
| Morrill Act | Gave government-owned land to states so states could build colleges to teach agriculture and engineering |
| Buffalo Bill Cody | Buffalo hunter. He helped provide food for the railroad workers. |
| Dangers of mining | Fires, cave-ins, floods |
| Pacific Railway Acts | Gave RR companies loans and land grant to build railways in exchange for providing mail transport. Towns were built on free land given to the companies. |
| Railroad Workers | Mostly immigrants and civil war veterans |
| Impact of railways | better transportation for people and goods. Increased economy, increased population |
| Leland Stanford | Part owner of Central Pacific Railway; founded Standford University, Gave chinese immigrant worker less money |
| Transcontinental Railroad | Built to connect east and west; for travel, goods, mail, troops |
| Treaties of Forts Laramie and Atkinson | Accepted Indian cliams to much of the great plains and promised to pay for damages to the indian lands. However, unfair to Natife Americans |
| Treaty of Medicine Lodge | Native Americans had to move off land and live on reservations (gave up hunting lands) |
| Reservations | Areas of former Indian homelands where Indians were forced to live. Poorest land. |
| Dawes General Alotment Act | Divided Indian reservation land to given individual Indians land and promised them citizenship. In the end, the Indians lost about 2/3 of their land. |
| Buffalo | meant everything to indians: food, tools, clothes, shelter |
| Miners | Travelled west for mining; increased need to expansion; government built forts to protect miners as they went west. Immigants from asia knew how to mine |
| Indian Schools | Schools for native Americans to teach them how to be americans and act like us |
| Difficulties building railroads | had to feed workers, harsh weather, explosions, sierra nevada mountains, snow drifts |
| Manifest Destiny | The belief that it was our duty to civilize the west and believing that everyone else wanted to be like us |
