Question 4 • Crowley Credit Recovery US History Studies Since 1877 A
The transcontinental railroad, completed in 1869, made travel across the country much faster and easier, allowing many more settlers to move west. The reservation system and the Indian Appropriations Act restricted Indigenous peoples’ lands, while the Battle of Wounded Knee occurred later and did not enable westward travel in the same way.
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