Pacific Railroad Act Of 1860

1. Pacific Railway act is a law passed in 1862 and 1864 giving large lands grants to the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads.
2. Exoduster is an African American who migrated to the west after the civil war
3. Reservation is a federal land set aside for Native Americans.
4. Battle of little bighorn in 1876 Sioux over army troops led by George Custer
5. Long drive is the moving of a cattle from distant rangers to busy railroads centers that ships cattle to the market.
6. Soddie is a home whose walls is ruff and is made of blocks of grass with thick roots and earth attached
7. Bonanza farm are farms controlled by large businesses, and managed by professionals, and raising massive quantities of single cash crops.
8. Free silvers is the

1. Railroad expansion provided new avenues of migration into the American interior.
2. Congress passed the Morrill Land-Grant Act of 1862. It gave the state governments millions of acres of western lands, which the states could then sell to raise money for the creation of "land grant" colleges specializing in agriculture and mechanical arts. The states sold their land grants to bankers and land spectators.
3. Homestead act, which allowed people to buy a piece of land for a very cheap price although there were some exceptions like you have to be 21, you must live on the land for 5 years and you had to improve your land.
4. All private property was equal. Everyone would earn certain ownership rights.
12. It took decades for the US to end hostility with native tribes due to strong feelings on both sides about the morality of relocation
13. The mining industry provided many jobs. On January 24, 1848, James Marshall discovered gold in the tailrace of the mill he had built for John Sutter. Ranching and farming supplied food for markets, and income for the ranchers and farmers.
14. As more and more American and immigrant settlers arrived in the west, the culture changed from a more pioneering and nomadic lifestyle to a much more settled lifestyle. The Midwest saw large immigrant populations of Germans move in with about half settling down as farmers and the other half as

The farmers opposed the gold standard because in order for them to live on their farms, they needed to take out a mortgage because they couldn't pay their entire fee by themselves. Therefore, farmers were in debt, and the gold and silver standard would help them by increasing the amount of currency in circulation. Inflation would help debtors because more currency would be produced, therefore the value of each currency would decrease and the value of their debts would also decrease, which make it easier to pay it off. The wealthy and eastern industrial workers supported the gold standard because inflation would not help them. The wealthy had savings accounts and such, and inflation would lessen the value of their savings.
16. They were a People's party. Main issues/goals: an increased circulation of money, the unlimited minting of silver, a progressive income tax-the percentage of taxes owed increases with a rise in income-worse for the wealthy than the farmers, and government ownership of communications and transportation systems.
17. The United States presidential election saw Republican William McKinley defeat Democrat William Jennings Bryan. McKinley forged a coalition in which businessmen, professionals, skilled factory workers, and prosperous farmers were heavily represented. Economic issues, including bimetallism, the gold standard, free silver, and tariffs, were of primary