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Homestead strike apush significance1/12/2024 ![]() ![]() Connects the entire continent, allowing for quick and efficient movement of people, natural resources, and products 2. Ø Increased production of steel and switch to uniform track gauge contributed to consolidation ![]() were consolidating, Cornelius Vanderbilt gained control of the RRs connecting major cities and NY (NY Central RR), he became incredibly wealthy Ø Completed on when they meet at Promontory Point, Utah combined with other RRs this greatly speeds up development of the West Ø Both companies relied on immigrant labor (Chinese on C.P. Ø RR built in two directions: Union Pacific west from Omaha, Central Pacific east from Sacramento Ø In 1862 Lincoln makes completion a priority: Gov’t gave RR companies land adjoining where the track will be built to encourage quick building of RR Thus, Republicans believed that by giving away free land to families, and encouraging those families to live on and cultivate public land, a homestead act would diminish slave power by stopping the spread of slavery and setting up competition for the southern agricultural economy.Ø Transcontinental RR started in 1854 with Kansas-Nebraska Act, but construction stalled bc of sectional crisis and Civil War These farmers were uninterested in (and incapable of instituting) slave labor. It was rightly believed by both northern and southern politicians that westward expansion would encourage an influx of small, independent farmers into the western territories. The field is now fully open to the honest and energetic farmer, who wishes to secure himself a home on easy terms.”Ī homestead act had long been championed by northern politicians because:Ī) speculators were claiming large tracts out west and bringing in slave labor to build large farms.ī) the Pacific Railroad was foundering because of the limited settlement of the western territories.Ĭ) much of the land up for public federal grants was being illegally claimed by southern slaveholders.ĭ) the spread of small farms into the western territories would limit the power of the slave economy. “When we consider the vast amount of excellent land lying immediately on and along the line of the Pacific Railroad, as well as the vast unsettled tracts in all Western Kansas, to not notice the land elsewhere, we cannot but feel that the passage of the Homestead Bill will form a new era in Western emigration. What example question about the Homestead Act might come up on the APUSH exam?
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