Modernizing America From the Wild West to the Big City 1860 – 1920.
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Transcript of Modernizing America From the Wild West to the Big City 1860 – 1920.
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- Modernizing America From the Wild West to the Big City 1860 1920
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- The American West The Second Industrial Revolution Life at the Turn of the Century
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- Go West! Why?
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- Sioux Cheyenne Nez Perce Apache Whites
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- U.S. Policy From forced removal (Jackson 1830) To forced relocation to reservations and then
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- Conflict Culture Nomad lifestyle of Plains Indians Land should not be owned Buffalo Center of Indians life Use everything for life Whites herd them and kill for hides and sport
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- War Sandy Creek Massacre 150 women and children Battle of Little Big Horn Sitting Bull defeats Custer Wounded Knee
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- Sitting Bull and George Custer
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- Native American Warriors
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- Wounded Knee Custers old cavalry slaughters Sioux tribe while doing Ghost Dance. Marched them freezing to camp. Shot fired; 300 dead. END of Indian wars.
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- U.S. Policy From forced removal (Jackson 1830) To forced relocation to reservations and thenassimilation
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- Laws Dawes Act End Reservation system Make Indians land owners 160 acres to head of family 80 to single over 18
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- Mining and Ranching Wild Wild West
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- Cowboys Herded Texas longhorns up to Great Plains. Loaded on a train to be shipped to Chicago. WHY? Growing demand for beef in the East because cities expanding.
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- Cowboys and Wild West Dodge City, KS Tombstone, AZ Billy the Kid Doc Holliday Wyatt Earp Buffalo Bill
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- Immortalizing the West E.Z. Judson writer or dime novels Iconized the wild west
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- End of the Cowboy Barbed wire Refrigerated railcar
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- Railroads Railroads open the west Irish and Chinese immigrants primary labor Transcontinental railroad connects a Promontory Point, Utah
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- Big Business of Railroads 1865 - 35,000 miles of track 1900 193,000 miles of track Greatest impact on America Economy National market Mass consumption production Specialization New industries Connects east and west Encourages travel
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- Railroads Companies B & O Pennsylvania (Reading) New York Make rails compatible Consolidate competition
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- Questions Who should own the railroads? Private businessmen or the government?
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- Railroad Politics Corrupt Railroads Consolidated rails price, gouged and took bribes. Small farmers were charged high rates Big farmers paid bribes
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- Farming Problems
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- Life on the Great Plains Exodusters-black settlers. Soddy- house made out of grass and sod.
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- Changes in Farming Commercialization Small farmer driven out of business Buy household goods Sears and Roebuck catalogs Specialization Concentrate on one large cash crop
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- Farming is Big Business Bonanza farms-large farms Hurt smaller farms Cant compete.
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- Prices hurt Farmers Machinery expensive-took out loans. Household good go up. Railroads raise rates Prices for crops began to fall 1870s. Wheat Corn 1867 $2.00 $.78 1889.70.23
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- Farmers Organize Form the Farmers Alliances- educate farmers and lobby the govt. National Grange Movement Oliver H. Kelly Political Actions Granger Laws passed in states Control railroad short haul rates
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- States can regulate short haul or inside state hauling but what about across state lines?
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- Laws Interstate Commerce Act Sets up ICC that could investigate and penalize Unreasonable and unjust rates or any discriminatory practices by railroads.
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- List and explain 2 ways the railroads impacted the U.S. Economy? List and explain 2 ways farming changed and the problems farmers face