Railroads
Mining
Cattle and ranching
Farming on the Great Plains
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Destruction of the buffalo
Impact on Native peoples
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Key events summary
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Vocabulary
Unit 6 topics
Unit 6 overview6.1Contextualizing Period 66.2Westward Expansion: Economic Development6.3Westward Expansion: Social and Cultural Development6.4The "New South"6.5Technological Innovation6.6The Rise of Industrial Capitalism6.7Labor in the Gilded Age6.8Immigration and Migration in the Gilded Age6.9Responses to Immigration in the Gilded Age