Willa Cather: My Ántonia
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•Nebraska
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•https://maps.lib.utexas.edu/maps/histus.html

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•The Homestead Act
•May 20, 1862
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•The act provided settlers with 160 acres of surveyed public land after payment of a filing fee and
five years of continuous residence.

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Buffalo County School


•The Transcontinental Railroad
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•The Pacific Railway Act, July 1, 1862
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•An Act to aid in the Construction of a Railroad and Telegraph Line from the Missouri River to the
Pacific Ocean
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Transcontinental Railroad, Overland Route, Southern Pacific Railroad Map, 1908. Transcontinental
Railroad, Overland Route, Southern Pacific Railroad Map, 1908. Transcontinental Railroad, Overland
Route, Southern Pacific Railroad Map, 1908. Transcontinental Railroad, Overland Route, Southern
Pacific Railroad Map, 1908.

Thomas Hill: The Last Spike (1881)
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George Innes, The Lackawanna Valley, 1855
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Jasper Cropsey, Starrucca Viaduct, 1865



John Gast, American Progress, 1872
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•Women
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•The 19th Amendment, granting suffrage to women, was approved by Congress in 1920.
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•1890 - Wyoming had entered the Union as the first state to grant women full voting rights
•The next eight states to grant full suffrage to women were also Western states: Colorado (1893);
Utah and Idaho (1896); Washington (1910); California (1911); and Oregon, Kansas, and Arizona
(1912).
•Why was the West first?