The West Transformed (1860-1896)

1. The West Transformed(1860-1896) By Clam & Dans

2. Mining & Railroads • Civil War Ova! • Nation turned its attention to Western Frontier • Western Frontier • Mississippi River to Pacific Ocean • Prairies, mountains, forests • Home of Mexican Settlers & Native Americans • Great American Desert • Americans thought crops couldn’t grow thurr • Railroad builders And Miners • Made the west a vital part of the nation’s economy

3. Boom and Bust • The Comstock Lode • Gold in Sierra, Nevada • Blue mud is Silva • $300 Mils • The Boom Boom Pow Spreads • Montana, Idaho, South Dakota • Sold Mining Rights • $11,000 and Dos Muleys • Big Boom Boom Business • Boomtown life • Tent cities • Boom Boom Pow Town Stores • Mujeres • ARRIBA!, foreign miners! • Frontier Justice • Vigilantes • Sheriffs, Marshalls, and Judges • Boom Boom Town to Ghost Town

4. The Railroad Boom • Aid to Railroads • Subsidies • Federal loans • Spanning the Continent • Transcontinental railroad • Central Pacific & Union Pacific • Workers • Harsh conditions • May 10, 1869- Promontory, Utah • And Jank’s Birfdayyy! • Ooo^OOO! • Effects of the Railroads • Nevada, Colorado, North Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, Washington, Idaho, and South Dakota.

5. Native Americans Struggle to Survive • Mining and railroads • Brought people to the west • Booming region • Native Americans struggled to survive

6. People of the Plains • Life in Transition • Gathering wild foods, hunting, and fishing • Travois • Tepees • Buffalos = muy importante! • Division of Labors • Women’s roles • Men’s roles

7. Broken Treaties • Fort Laramine Treaty • 1851 • Permanent settlement for government protection • Sand Creek Massacre • Pikes Peak • Colonel John Chivington vs. Cheyennes • “There will be no white flag above myyyyy door!” • Buffalo Soldiers • African American Civil War veterans • Fought and captured bandits • End of the Buffalo • Cyaaa buffy!

8. Last Stand for Custer and the Sioux • Reservations • Inidan tribes moved to reservations to Okie. • Dakota.. • Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse • Little Bighore • Georgey porgey Custer • Sioux and Cheyennes • Cyaa Custer & Co.

9. Other Efforts at Resistance • The Nez Perces • Chief Joseph’s flee • Nez Perces fled to Canada • The Navajos • Navajo long walk • Disease and hunga • The Apaches • GERONIMOOOOO! • The Ghost Dance • Trance, dreamlike • Ancient buffalo and ancestors return, whiteys leave • Sioux flee to safety • Battle of Wounded Knee

10. The Failure of Reform • Calls for Reform • Susette La Flesche • Helen Hunt Jackson • A century of Dishonor • Alice Fletcher • The Dawes Act • End Native American wandering • Create farmers • Set-up schools • FAIL

11. The Cattle Kingdom • Ranchers • Created a cattle industry • Beef all ova tha nation!

12. The Rise of the Cattle Industry • Means and Markets • Open range • Protein-rich BEEF • The Long Drives • Cattle drive • Two to three monfths • Chisholm Trail • Goodnight Loving Trail

13. Life on the Trail • A Risky Ride • Cowhands • Risky Buisness.. oOo! • Natural Diasters • Little pay • Spanish Roots • Vaquero • Sombrero • Lasso! • 1/3 MEX

14. The Wild West • Cow Towns • Joseph McCoy • Abilene, Kansas- Cow town • Dance halls, saloons, hotels, restaurants • Druken brawls! • Wild, Wild West! • The Myth of the West • Violence, adventure, and endless opportunity • Buffalo “Bill” Cody • Annie Oakley • Myth, BUSTED.

15. Boom and Bust in the Cattle Kingdom • The Cattle Boom • High profits • Meaty! • Disease- free • The Boom Ends • Scorching summers • Frigid winters • Economic Depression = we no want beefy.  • Sheep competition • Boom Boom Pow ends

16. Farming in the West • Ranchers & Cowhands • Building the cattle kingdom • Farmers • Flooding into the great plains

17. Homesteading • Homestead Act • 1862 • 160- acre plot, if resided on for five years • Homesteaders • Not overly successful • Railroads Promote Farming • Western railroad shipping • Recruit settlers

18. A hard Life on the Plains • Busting Sod • Sod used for housing and farming • New Farming Methods • John Deere • Drills, Windmills, fences, barbed wire • Farm Families • Men labored • Children – animales & chores • Women – house keeping, harvesting, educating, nursing. • Exodusters • African Americans believed they were like Jews fleeing slavery in Egypt. • The Spanish Southwest • Ricos! Cha cha cha.

19. A Last Rush for Land • Boomers and Sooners • Oklahoma City • Claim 2 Million acres • Sneaky peats • The Frontier Closes • 1890 • No mas land

20. Farmers Organize • Crisis on the Farm • Low grain prices • Loans • Loss of land • Oh hot debt, I haven’t paid it yWilliam Jennings Bryanet! • Cooperatives and Political Parties • National Grange • Farmers Alliance • Farm Cooperatives • Populist Party • The Election of 1896 • Populist supported Democrat – William Jennings Bryan • Bankers and Business owners back William McKinley 

21. videoeos • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf4cD4tFd8M • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UvKun8ZaPI

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