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9) How did the federal government both promote and regulate US Industry from 1865-1900?
The U.S Industry between 1865 and 1900 can be summoned up by one word, Railroads. The railroad was the single most important agent of economic growth during these years. Railroads were the largest consumers of coal, the largest carriers of goods and people, and the largest single employer of labor. It was a boom financed in part by the federal government, which gave millions of dollars for construction. And the federal government gave railway companies grants of land. Railroad companies were advertising, trying to attract settlers to lands that had been granted them in the West. Rail lines were extended westward to Dodge City, Kansas, in 1871. Longhorn cattle were being driven from Texas through Indian Territory (Oklahoma) to rail heads at Abilene Kansas and Dodge City - drives of from 1,200 to 1,500 miles, moving from ten to twenty miles per day. The peak year of the cattle drives was 1871......

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