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Transcript of Unit 7: Industrial Society/The Gilded Age/The West Chapter 18: Conflict & Change in the West, 1865-...
Unit 7: Industrial Society/The Gilded
Age/The WestChapter 18: Conflict &
Change in the West, 1865-1902
The Homestead Act 1862
160-acre plots for minimum of 5 years
Eastern families, exodusters
Morrill Land Grants
“To teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such manner as the legislatures of the States may respectively prescribe, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions in life.”
Transcontinental Railroad
Pacific Railway Acts
Union Pacific R/R started in Omaha, NE & went westRelied on Irish immigrants
Central Pacific R/R started in Sacramento & went eastRelied on Chinese immigrants
Transcontinental RailroadBoth companies were given federal loans & land
grants
Completed in 1869 when they met at Promontory Summit, Utah
Transcontinental Railroad
ResultsConnected the west to the east;
communication Opened up new markets for manufactured
goodsIncreased trade with AsiaPaved the way for the growth of the west
Four more transcontinental lines were completed before the end of the century
Time Zones (1883)
Legendary Gunslingers & Train Robbers
Jesse JamesJesse James
Billy the KidBilly the Kid
Wyatt EarpWyatt Earp
The Plains IndiansGovt. signed the Fort Laramie Treaty (1851) & the
Fort Atkinson Treaty (1853) with various tribesMarked the beginning of the reservation system in
the west as Indians were separated into great colonies
After the Civil War, fighting btwn. the Indians & the Army ensued
Indian way of life was destroyed by…RailroadsDiseaseNear extinction of buffalo
The Plains Indians
Buffalo provided food, fertilizer, & clothing1865 - 15 million1885 - less than 1,000
Buffalo herds were massacred with the building of the railroadsFood for r/r
construction workers Killed for amusement
William “Buffalo Bill” Cody
The Plains Indians
Last major confrontation btwn. the Army & the Indians came in 1890Indians began practicing
the Ghost DanceBattle of Wounded Knee
Creek
Arapahoe Ghost Dance, 1890Arapahoe Ghost Dance, 1890