Gold,Silver,And Boomtowns.
Published on Nov 21, 2015
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Gold silver and Boomtowns.
- Transportation was vital to the survival of mining communities.
- Gold,silver, & other metals had little value unless they reached factories,ports,and markets.
- Wagons and stagecoaches could not move people and goods fast enough,but railroads could.
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THE GOVERNMENT.
- To help with high construction cost, the governtment gave railroad companies large subsidies financial aid and land grants.
- Government land grants included land for the tacks plus strips of land, 20 to 80 miles.
- Railraod companies sold this land to raise money to pay for construction.
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NEW FARMING METHODS
- Sodbusters are farmers that developed new farming methods and tools.
- Sodbusters practiced dry farming.
- To cut through the tough layers of sod- the steel plow.
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HOMESTEAD.
- In 1862 Congress passed the Homestead Act to encourage settlement on the Great Plains.
- This law gave up to 160 acres of land to any head of a family who paid a $10 filing fee and lived on the land for five years.
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