1. By: Mitchell Lanning #:16
An Expanding Nation
By: Mitchell Lanning
#:16

2. The Transcontinental Railroad
They got paid for every mile of track they layed.
The railroad made goods get from place to place faster then ever before.
The railroad went all a crossed the continent.
The railroad also helped people travel faster too.

3. The Gold Rush When gold was found everyone want to get there fast.
When Jackson found gold flakes he said “I went to bed and dreamed of riches galore that’s what he wrote in his diary.
When gold was found in California there were enough people for it to be a state.

4. Cowboys
They sold longhorns for about $4 and they were worth about $40.

5. Effects of the Railroads and Gold Rush

6. War in the West