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Miners set up camps → others moved there to sell supplies→ more people meant a call for order and hiring sheriffs

Benefits of a Transcontinental Railroad:

• The ability to transport goods across the country quickly

• The ability for people to move across the country quickly

• Both contributed to fast community growth

Cattle Ranching Before Barbed Wire: cattle raised in an open range system

Cattle Ranching After Barbed Wire: Ranchers fenced their cattle

Advantages of Settling on the Great Plains: Possibly acquiring cheap or free land

Disadvantages of Settling on the Great Plains: Bad Weather (made living/farming on the plains difficult)

How did the Chinese and Mexican groups respond to discrimination?

• Lawsuits

• Relocation

• Formed protest groups

Despite Discrimination, minorities played important parts in settling the west ( mostly Chinese and Mexican Groups were out west)

Situations that created tension between different groups in the west ( miners, farmers, ranchers, and sheepherders):

• Sharing limited resources

• damaging another supply

• mining contaminated water

• everyone needed water

• sheepherders and ranchers needed the same grasslands