Homestead Act (1862)-Law passed to encourage settlement of the WEST., Transcontinental Railroad Connected Eastern and Western parts of the United States. , Dawes Act (1887)-Law that broke up American Indian Reservations. Goal was to assimilate/Americanize Native Americans., Klondike Gold Rush-1896 Gold Rush in Northern Washington and Alaska. Thousands of prospectors (gold miners) migrated north, though mountainous terrain and cold weather led to few being successful., Cattle Drive-Cattle would be "driven" from Texas to Missouri and Kansas and then shipped by rail to Northern Cities with slaughterhouses. Ended in 1880 due to less open land and invention of barbed wire..

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