AP U.S. History / Unit 6: Period 6: 1865–1898
6.2 Westward Expansion: Economic Development
Notes
The transcontinental railroad (1869), mining, ranching and farming drove western growth. The Homestead Act gave land. Railroads and commercial farming linked the West to national markets.
Practice
The transcontinental railroad was completed in:
Promontory Summit, Utah.
Railroads helped western farmers by:
Shipping crops.
Chinese immigrants were major workers on the:
Western railroad.
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