hiotory
Kuvakäsikirjoitus Teksti
- Homestead Act
- Transcontinental Railroad
- Boomtowns
- Signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln on May 20, 1862, the Homestead Act encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land. In exchange, homesteaders paid a small filing fee and were required to complete five years of continuous residence before receiving ownership of the land.
- Exodusters
- To connect the east to the west. As a result, the federal government passed the pacific railway acts of 1862 and 1864.
- Cowboys
- These towns were communities that sprang up when a mine opened.
- Open Range
- Exodusters was a name given to African Americans who migrated from states along the Mississippi River to Kansas in the late nineteenth century, as part of the Exoduster Movement or Exodus of 1879. It was the first general migration of blacks following the Civil War.
- The workers who took care of ranchers cattle were know as cowhands or cowboys. Cowboys borrowed many of their techniques from mexican vaqueros , ranch hands who cared for cattle and horses.
- This land had once been occupied by plains indians and buffalo herds.
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