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1. www.hmdb.org › mWest Homestead Veterans Memorial - The Historical Marker Database

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   Sep 3, 2024 · Memorial is at the intersection of West 8th Avenue (Pennsylvania Route 837) and Sarah Street, on the right when traveling north on West 8th Avenue. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: 402 West 8th Avenue, Homestead PA 15120, United States of America. Touch for directions. Other nearby markers.

2. activities.marriott.com › north-america › usaFire in the Valley- Carnegie Steel and the Town That Built ...

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   Sep 3, 2024 · Homestead Duration: 30 minutes As the location of the largest steel mill on the planet, this town played an essential role in the story of not just America but the entire industrial world.

3. www.britannica.com › topic › American-frontierAmerican frontier | Definition, Significance, & Maps | Britannica

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   Sep 7, 2024 · American frontier, in United States history, the advancing border that marked those lands that had been settled by Europeans. It is characterized by the westward movement of European settlers from their original settlements on the Atlantic coast (17th century) to the Far West (19th century).

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4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Manifest_destinyManifest destiny - Wikipedia

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   Sep 6, 2024 · Manifest destiny. Checked. American Progress (1872) by John Gast is an allegorical representation of the modernization of the new west. Columbia, a personification of the United States, is shown leading civilization westward with the American settlers.

5. www.britannica.com › topic › American-frontierAmerican frontier - Expansion, Democracy, Westward Movement

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   Sep 7, 2024 · State capitals have been moved, constitutions rewritten, and legislative programs remade to satisfy contending interests, old and new, East and West. One American state has been divided. New western states have been created out of lands once claimed by older parent states.

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6. www.npshistory.com › publications › homePark Archives: Homestead National Historical Park

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   Aug 20, 2024 · It materialized an American dream. Today's immigrants from Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Central and South America, and elsewhere share a dream with the homesteaders who came to America's interior in the post-Civil War era.

7. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › History_of_the_UnitedHistory of the United States (1865–1917) - Wikipedia

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   1 day ago · The history of the United States from 1865 to 1917 was marked by the Reconstruction era, the Gilded Age, and the Progressive Era, and includes the rise of industrialization and the resulting surge of immigration in the United States.

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   Where did the west come from before the American Revolution?

   • Well before the American Revolution they had brought a new west into being: in upper New England, in the Mohawk River valley, in the great valley of Pennsylvania and above the fall line and out into the ridges and valleys of the south.

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   How did the Homestead Act affect the Great Plains?

   • Laborers wanted higher paying work and better conditions. With the Homestead Act of 1862 providing free land to citizens and the railroads selling cheap lands to European farmers, the settlement of the Great Plains was swiftly accomplished, and the frontier had virtually ended by 1890.

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   How did the US expand into the west?

   • In a policy formulated largely by Henry Knox, Secretary of War in the Washington Administration, the U.S. government sought to expand into the west through the purchase of Native American land in treaties. Only the Federal Government could purchase Indian lands, and this was done through treaties with tribal leaders.

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   How did the Homestead plant affect the railroad industry?

   • The Homestead plant completely barred unions until 1937. Two years later, wage cuts at the Pullman Palace Car Company, just outside Chicago, led to a strike, which, with the support of the American Railway Union, soon brought the nation's railway industry to a halt.

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