The American west How did the industrialization and the government transform the West?

The
impact of industrialization on the American west resulted in the following;

1. The spread of immigrants into the western lands.

2. The passage
of the Morrill Land Grant in 1862 which provided for the sale of federal lands to fund
agricultural colleges to speed up the pace of scientific agricultural development in order to
industrialize that sector of the economy.

3. A series of broken treaties
between the United States and the Native Americans as the west was settled by immgrants and
homesteaders.

4. The cattle kingdom which turned cattle ranching into big
business but eventually would take such a toll on the land it led to the great 'Dust Bowl' of
the 1930's.

5. The creation of the Interstate Commerce Commission which
regulated the railroads by prohibiting monopolistic practices and price
fixing.