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Coal mining production was the largest in the 1900 and was a very dangerous job because of explosions, cave-ins, and sickness

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Indians on the great plains before they were kicked off of their land

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Transcontinental railroad

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1873 to 1900s

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Almost half of the gold mines were in Alaska and it was a hard dangerous job

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The north had all the iron

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in 1867 secretary of states Seward arranged for the united states to purchase Alaska increasing the area of the nation by 20 percent

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The Great Plains and western prairies that the Indians were eventually kicked off of.

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The First transcontinental railroad was finished in 1869

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The growing steel industry made the continental railroad possible

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Western railroads was hard, hot work. Most of the labor was performed by Chinese and Irish immigrant

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By 1900 there were five times as many industrial workers as before the Civil War, and the United states was first in the world in factory production.

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Cattle to eastern markets and supplies to western settlers

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Trains carried

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In 1880

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The American settlers moved to the west, clearing land, making farms, opening mines, and building towns.

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In 1898 there was a major gold discovery and upwards of 12 gold mines were found and being dug up for gold. My prospectors who tried to reach the gold mines had to cross mountains by foot and then build or take boats across the rivers and lakes there to dig for gold.

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The trains carried eastern supplies to the west.

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In 1900 the highest coal production was the U.S.

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It didn't rain very much in the west

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When the buffalo disappeared the Indians lost their main source of food.

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After the Civil War almost 250,000 Indians lived on the Western prairies and the Great Plains but to encourage other citizens to settle there, the government offered citizens 160 acres of the Indians land for free.

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Their we're more buffalo in the 1860's

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Settlement in the west was responsible for ten new states between 1864 and 1900

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Federal subsidies payed for the continental railroad, which made it easier to settle the west.

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Most of the land was occupied by indians

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The population in Nevada was only 7,000 in 1860 but because of the mining industry by 1880 around 62,000 people currently lived there

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Northern and eastern states had about 85% of the industrial output, west barely had any

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By 1870 more than 300000 cattle per year were being moved north.

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Copper,gold, molybdenum, lead, silver was found on the outskirts of Montana. Gold was mostly found around California, South Dakota and Nevada . Idaho, Montana, South Dakota, Utah, Nevada , California, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico territories were the mining area in the west.

In Nevada the population went higher when they discovered silver then when the price went lower so did the population.

In 1867 the Secretary of State Seward arranged for the us to buy Alaska where there was a gold strike which brought brought many prospectors through the sea

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The west had many coal mines and little to no iron

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250,000 Indians lived on the western prairies and Great Plains after the civil war

By 1900, 500,000 settlers farmed the plains, growing food to help feed the cities of the east

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The first continental railroad was completed in 1869. It cut cross country travel time from 26 days to one week.

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You are researching maps and using the information in the map that you have been assigned to explain how the west has transformed. What do your maps say about the western portion of the United States? In your own words explain the importance of the information on the maps. Do not feel as you have to mention every piece of information that the maps include, but do go in depth about what the significance or the importance of what the information in the maps reveal. Also, please search the web and feel free to include a link or a photo from your own explorations. Do not include pictures of yourself. If that does happen, then we will revert to a pen/pencil and paper assignment for the this activity. I repeat - people taking photos of themselves will lose their access to the computer for the class period. Thanks, and I am excited to see what you find and what your thoughts reveal. After making a post about your assigned topic, feel free to include more a posts that have a different connection to the subject.