Class Notes 8/29 (New Unit) The West The Transcontinental Railroad
•Between 1862-1864, Congress passed the Pacific Railway Acts •It subsidized the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroad companies to build a transcontinental railroad. •They relied on cheap labor(usually immigrants) to lay tracks •Chinese and Irish Immigrants •Central Pacific started in Sacramento, California •Union Pacific started in Omaha, Nebraska The Homestead Act •The Homestead Acts were several laws in the United States by which an applicant could acquire ownership of government land or the public domain, typically called a homestead Cattle Ranchers •Post- Civil War prosperity in the Northeast created a demand for beef •Ranchers using the Great Plains abundant amount of grass Introduced Barbed Wire Exodusters •Exodusters was a name given to African Americans who migrated from states along the Mississippi River to Kansas in the late nineteenth century •Part of the Exoduster Movement or Exodus of 1879. •It was the first general migration of black people following the Civil War
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