There were many groups living in the United States between 1860 and 1900 and most of the groups we can categorize people into had very different viewpoints. The main groups that most can be categorized into are the wealthy, the common people, the Indians and the Chinese. Starting with the wealthy they looked at the west as a big fat paycheck, the wealth folks went out west and bought up lots of land and production and monopolized, while the common people competed with these big companies for free and cheap land because they were the poor back east and came out west with hopes of finding gold while mining or getting rich off abundant crop land or maybe it was some common women who came out west because they were allowed to purchase land out west. The Indians were native to the west and after immigration started some of the bigger tribes fought back but most tribes were too small and were forced by the American …show more content…
This land was given away and sold for very low prices and people surged to buy and move out west. . More people had land and therefore more people could vote which took some of the political power out of the wealthy class hands. When a mass amount of people started migrating west two train companies started to build a rail road that ran from the east to the west of the united. This project alone created millions of jobs, but when the train companies herd that government was selling land cheaply the began competing with civilians to buy as much land as possible. The US west lead to the opening of the first transcontinental rail road which brought in a lot of money. It changed the time it took to travel from the east coast to the west coast from a few months to a week. This transcontinental rail road brought a more civilized life to the west and helped the surge of immigrants heading west. This rail road also lead to a huge boom in agricultural trade from the national level all the way to the global