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Government subsidies and land grants played a major role in its expansion.
The entire national system was planned before the first railway was constructed.
Transcontinental rail travel was not possible at any time during the century.
The development of the rails had little effect on the development of American industry.
A more highly developed rail system gave the Confederacy a decided advantage in the Civil War.
End the practice of sharecropping
Provide housing for urban dwellers
Improve conditions for farmers
Increase profits for railroad companies
Railroad companies would be persuaded to stop unfair pricing through a number of government incentives
Recently arrived European immigrants would be enticed into settling in the less populated West
Legislators would be less likely to accept bribes because of the severity of the penalty
Southern state legislatures would be motived to strike racist laws from their books in return for greater federal aid
Native Americans would be coaxed off reservations by land grants and would thus assimilate into Western culture
Invention of the railroad
Evolution of westward migration
Religious influence of Puritans
Protection of national parks
8 Hour Work Day
Secret Ballot
Women in Politics
Direct Elections
Income Tax
Opening Back Up the Open Range
The act of leaving one's homeland
The talent to speak a variety of languages
The ability to blend into another culuture
The desire to maintain one's old customs and language
Dawes Act
Jim Crow Laws
Homestead Act
Munn v Illinois
How easy and luxurious farming life was
One of the many factors that attracted people to the west
The willingness of the government to settle the west
How people adapt to their environment
They maintained control of their traditional lands
They benefited economically from government policy
They became farmers and small business owners
They were forced to live on reservations
To unite farmers so they could try to improve their economic problems
To decrease the number of farmers in the West
To try to decrease the price of their crops
To discourage people from moving west
Railroads transported people and goods throughout the nation
The railroads gave away free land to those who asked
The railroads provided free rides to passengers
Railroads helped Native Americans spread their culture
Buffalo
Farming
Fishing
Horses
Purchasers had to be citizens
People had to pay for this land
Buyers need farming experience
This land was on the Atlantic Coast
The government prevented the railroads from growing
The federal government prompted the building of the transcontinental railroad
Western railroads generated little money
Railroad companies had to buy the land
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False
True
False
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