5-2 Railroads moving west government allowed it chinese worked on railroads union pacific laid tracks west of the Missouri and central pacific went from california. Both companies raced to meet and met in 1869 in Promentary Point Utah. homestead act- five years on 160 acres of land out west and it was free. Women worked with men planting and such and shaved sheep so they could make clothes and they also raised kids and did housework. Eventually breadbasket of the nation.
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