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Railroads
America/
Impact
on Plains
Indinas
- Railroads
- 1860-1890
- reasons
- enable troops to
moved to control
Indian upspring
- let federal officers
reach new
settlements having
problems with law
and order
- trade-
transport
goods/ raw
materials to
ports in
Oregon and
California
- Keeps Americans in
touch, creating
national unity
- help fulfil
manifest
destiny/ easier
to migrate
- enable troops to
moved to control
Indian upspring
- Problems and their
solutions
- Raising money for
construction-
governments gift of
free land
- difficult terrain- great
engineers and hard work of
labourers
- Hostile Indians attacking-
unsolved
- Finding enough people
to work
- Raising money for
construction-
governments gift of
free land
- Impact on the
indians
- Buffalo was no
longer easy to hunt
- railroads criss-crossed on
the plains leading to buffalo
not being able to roam
freely
- They were building railroads on
Indian's 'sacred land' and
attacking those building it
- Buffalo was no
longer easy to hunt
- Positive outcomes
- help start the
industrial revolution
- Improved communication
- destroyed plain Indians way of living
- help start the
industrial revolution
- 1860-1890
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