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The East, What influenced economic growth in late 1800s? (Technology…
The East
What influenced economic growth in late 1800s?
Resources in West
Mining
Gold Rush 1849
Comstock Lode
Henry Comstock $500 million in silver
Cattle Kingdom
Cowboy
Vaqueros
Lariat
Cattle drivers
American Symbol around world
Open Range
Canada to Texas
Barbed Wire- ends the open range
Land
Homestead Act gave land to small farmers (also see Gov't)
Oklahoma Land Rush 1889
Technology
Henry Ford and the car
1908
Alexander Graham Bell
Telephone invented in 1876
Atlantic underwater telegraph cable 1866
Gas-powered plane
Wright Bros
First Flight in 1903
Thomas Edison
Lightbulb 1876
Westinghouse
Railroads
Central Pacific
Leland Stanford
Chinese Immigrants
Union Pacific
Irish Immigrants
Building towards west
Transcontinental Railroad1866
Gov't
Homestead Act
Oklahoma Land Rush
1889
Homesteaders
Diversity and equality on the plains
Transcontinental Railroad
Union Pacific
Central Pacific
Leland Stanford
Subsidies
Land grants to railroad companies