HIST 2057 Chapter : 6812
Document Summary
Go (for) broke western industries: rugged individualist involvement of gov"t in west is more significant in the west than the east. Railroads create the west railroad acts . Us military is in west to deal with indian upheavals and such. homestead act. This is us learning to be involved in communities, unlike the east: homestead act 1862 distributes land among farmers, distributed by federal land office. Contrary to the stance taken on distributing land to freedmen. Railroads also promote this (when people move out there the trade does too, people need supplies and catalogs and stuff): economics of boom and bust most of the rugged individuals are threatened by big business. Railroads: joining th rails, utah, 1869: farming the move occurs during a wet cycle . 1870"s and 1880"s they are experiencing drout, erosion, prices drop b/c there is a surpluss of product globally. Lends to big business taking over: ranching: at first a boom.
