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THE FIRST TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD
• Pacific Railroad Act –1862
• Immigrant labor –Chinese, Mexican, Irish
• May 10, 1869 –Promontory Point, Utah
HOMESTEADING ON THE GREAT PLAINS
• 1862 Homestead Act• 160 acres: $10 registration fee Live on the land & cultivate it for 5 years
NEW FARMS, NEW MARKETS, NEW STATES
• Advances in farm mechanization & barbed wire• Expensive & unpredictable weather
• 14 states added between 1861-1912• Washington – 1889
THE MINING FRONTIER
• Gold rush – 1849• Comstock Lode – 1853• Alaska territory 1867• Toll on the environment