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# Settling the West (1865-1890) ## The Mining Industry * California Gold Rush (1848) * Comstock Lode (1859) ## The Homestead Act * Gave 160 acres to anyone who did not support the Confederacy. * Improved land and over a 5-year period. * Surviving the Great Plains. * Sod houses * Dr...

# Settling the West (1865-1890) ## The Mining Industry * California Gold Rush (1848) * Comstock Lode (1859) ## The Homestead Act * Gave 160 acres to anyone who did not support the Confederacy. * Improved land and over a 5-year period. * Surviving the Great Plains. * Sod houses * Dry farming ## The Transcontinental Railroad * Completed in 1869 * Union Pacific built by Irish immigrants * Central Pacific built by Chinese immigrants * Sped up the settlement of the West ## Native Americans * The Indian Wars * The reservation System * Slaughter of the buffalo * The Dawes Act * Assimilation of Native Americans * 160 acres given to Indian families (farming) * Native American children sent to boarding schools ## The Cattle Industry * Immigrants created a demand for beef. * Cattle drives to railroad centers in Kansas. * Rise of meatpacking * Barbed wire and windmills led to ranching.