Railroads
This stretches from coast to coast across the continent
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
Ranchers rounded up herds and drove them North to railroad lines in Kansas and Missouri.
What are Cattle Drives?
What is Sodbuster?
A large vein of gold or silver.
Financial aid or land grant from the government in which Congress lent money to railroad companies and gave them land
What is a Subsidy?
Ranchers employed these to tend to their cattle and drive their herds.
What are Cowhands or Cowboys?
This promised 160 acres of land free to anyone who was the head of household, who had not fought for the Confederacy, who paid a small filing fee, and improved the land over five years
What is the Homestead Act?
The people, mostly men, who left their homes in 1849 to travel to California in search of gold during the California Gold Rush
the 49ers
What is Pooling?
Stray cattle from Spanish and Mexican ranches in the West mixed with other American breeds and grown into this.
What are Texas Longhorns?
What is the the National Grange Cooperation?
towns that sprang up almost overnight near all the major mining sites.
This is where larger companies would buy up smaller ones and companies with many short lines would combine for the sake of efficiency.
What is consolidation?
As more cattle is being driven along specific trails and areas, businesses offering services to cowhands began to form this at the end of cattle drives.
What are Cow towns?
This gave states 30,000 acres of public land per congressional representative to set up colleges that taught science, classics, agriculture, mechanics, and military tactics.
What is the Morrill Acts of 1862?
When the gold and silver mining camps dried up or the miners moved on many boomtowns end up as this.
What is a Ghost Town?
over building in the 1860s meant that many railroad companies were financially unstable. The Pennsylvania and Reading Railroad went bankrupt causing this financial downturn.
What is the Panic of 1893?
Created the most famous cattle trails, being half Scottish and half Cherokee in the 1860s
A follow up Act that extended land grants to African American students and established many HBCUs
What is the Morrill Act of 1890?
Two prospectors struck gold in Nevada in 1859 and then another miner took credit for the find. This find also drew miners to the west, starting the gold rush.
What is the Comstock Lode?