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Modernizing America

Modernizing America . From the Wild West to the Big City 1860 – 1920 . The American West The Second Industrial Revolution Life at the Turn of the Century . Go West! Why? . Nez Perce. Sioux. Whites. Cheyenne. Apache. U.S. Policy. From forced removal (Jackson 1830)

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Modernizing America

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  1. Modernizing America From the Wild West to the Big City 1860 – 1920

  2. The American WestThe Second Industrial RevolutionLife at the Turn of the Century

  3. Go West!Why?

  4. Nez Perce Sioux Whites Cheyenne Apache

  5. U.S. Policy • From forced removal (Jackson 1830) • To forced relocation to reservations • and then…

  6. 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

  7. War • Sandy Creek Massacre • 150 women and children • Battle of Little Big Horn • Sitting Bull defeats Custer • Wounded Knee

  8. Sitting Bull and George Custer

  9. Native American Warriors

  10. Wounded Knee • Custer’s old cavalry slaughters Sioux tribe while doing Ghost Dance. Marched them freezing to camp. Shot fired; 300 dead. • END of Indian wars.

  11. U.S. Policy • From forced removal (Jackson 1830) • To forced relocation to reservations • and then…assimilation

  12. Laws • Dawes Act • End Reservation system • Make Indians land owners • 160 acres to head of family • 80 to single over 18

  13. Mining and Ranching Wild Wild West

  14. 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.

  15. Cowboys and Wild West • Dodge City, KS • Tombstone, AZ • Billy the Kid • Doc Holliday • Wyatt Earp • Buffalo Bill

  16. Immortalizing the West • E.Z. Judson writer or “dime novels” • Iconized the “wild west”

  17. End of the Cowboy • Barbed wire • Refrigerated railcar

  18. Railroads • Railroads open the west • Irish and Chinese immigrants primary labor • Transcontinental railroad connects a Promontory Point, Utah

  19. 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

  20. Railroads Companies • B & O • Pennsylvania (Reading) • New York • Make rails compatible • Consolidate competition

  21. Questions • Who should own the railroads? • Private businessmen or the government?

  22. Railroad Politics • Corrupt Railroads • Consolidated rails price, gouged and took bribes. • Small farmers were charged high rates • Big farmers paid bribes

  23. Farming Problems

  24. Life on the Great Plains • Exodusters-black settlers. • Soddy- house made out of grass and sod.

  25. Changes in Farming • Commercialization • Small farmer driven out of business • Buy household goods • Sears and Roebuck catalogs • Specialization • Concentrate on one large cash crop

  26. Farming is Big Business • Bonanza farms-large farms • Hurt smaller farms • Can’t compete.

  27. Prices hurt Farmers • Machinery expensive-took out loans. • Household good go up. • Railroads raise rates • Prices for crops began to fall 1870’s. Wheat Corn • 1867 $2.00 $.78 • 1889 .70 .23

  28. Farmers Organize • Form the Farmer’s Alliances- • educate farmers and lobby the gov’t. • National Grange Movement • Oliver H. Kelly • Political Actions • Granger Laws passed in states • Control railroad “short haul” rates

  29. States can regulate “short haul” or inside state hauling but what about across state lines?

  30. Laws • Interstate Commerce Act • Sets up ICC that could investigate and penalize “Unreasonable and unjust” rates or any discriminatory practices by railroads.

  31. List and explain 2 ways the railroads impacted the U.S. Economy? • List and explain 2 ways farming changed and the problems farmers face

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