How was the West transformed economically and socially in this period?
1. Farming and improved farming
2. More Land
3. Small farmers oriented to national and international markets, and giant agricultural enterprises
4. Cowboys a symbol of free life
5. Technology encouraged by eastern and European companies
6. technology advanced Railroad North, south, east, and west transcontinental
7. Bison population decreased; no more buffalo
8. Dawes Act indians became citizens if lived on land for 25+ years and 160 acres of land.
9. Population increased
10. Economic Union
11. Settler's Society
12. Small Pox/ Cholera outbreaks
13. children taken from indian parents and adapted to white ways