1860's Western Expansion Essay

During the years 0f 1860’s to 1890’s the U.S experience the western expansion in major cities. While changes and expansion of the cities where the major event during this time the U.S was experiencing changes in many other areas, population railroads and industrial and urbanization was also expanding in the major cities. In this “think piece” assignment I would like to cover the western expansion that brought many changes to this country, and through research I want it to determine those changes to gather a better understanding of our history.
One of the main reason the western expansion in the U.S during the earlies 1860 was the expansion on the railroads because of the transcontinental railroad which began earlier than the 1860 but

In the early 1860 there were only nine major cities with New York and Philadelphia with the bigger population. Boston, Brooklyn, Baltimore, Chicago, New Orleans, Cincinnati and St Louis being cities that were in the process of expansion as well. In 1862 the government pass the first Pacific Railroad Act which allowed the government to give bonds, lands and grants to the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific Railroads company. During this time on the expansion both the Pacific and the Central railroad suffered a shortage on personnel due to the Civil War and slow down the process of expansion. The continuation of the western expansion was based on all the immigrants from Asia and other Irish immigrants. On the completion of the railroad on May 10, 1869, the immigrants and the population grew on all these major cities. This railroad connected the Pacific and the Central part of the U.S opening new land in the late

But the land that was being advertise was too expensive and didn’t pay enough taxes because of their location, once the major cities began to grow more settlers and more immigrants began to show up to buy land. In mid-1870’s the Sioux tribe killed Colonel George Armstrong Custer and his men during the battle of the Little Bighorn because they want it to control the white Great Plains and place the Indians in reservations. In 1876, Colorado became the 38th state to join the Union when President Ulysses Grant signed a proclamation of statehood. By the end of the 1870 other major cities began their expansion, Buffalo, Newark, Washington DC and San Francisco all thanks to the expansion on the railroads. All the change and all these expansions where creating more problems and dilemmas everywhere with the Indians the US Army the immigrants and the corruption on the government. In the 1880 the cities of Milwaukee, Detroit, Providence and Jersey City began to gain population, New York City continue with its expansion and continue to grow as one of the biggest cities during the westward expansion era. The Chinese immigrants where the major force behind the