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Changing Frontier: Windmills, Railroads, and Native American Wars - The Wild West

Explore the impact of new technologies like windmills and railroads, the conflicts of Native American Wars, and the rise of the Wild West in the 1800s. Discover the challenges faced by settlers, cowboys, and Native Americans in this transformative era.

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Changing Frontier: Windmills, Railroads, and Native American Wars - The Wild West

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  1. Ch. 9-4: New Technology • Windmills helped pump water • Barbed wire fences est. land boundaries • Steel plow helped break up the sod • Railroads brought goods West

  2. Windmills

  3. Railroads

  4. Changing Frontier • Great Plains- Native Americans forced into the plains in the early 1800’s now being forced out with U.S. Expansion • Mining Frontier- Gold found in Colorado & California

  5. Cattle Frontier • Cowboys drove cattle from Texas to Abilene, Kansas • Ranchers and Farmers constantly fought over land • Rise of the Wicky Wild Wild West

  6. Cattle Drives

  7. Cowboys

  8. John Wayne- The True American Cowboy

  9. Frontier Life • Women played a key role in the settlement of the west. • 1890 U.S. officially declared the frontier no longer exist • Frontier was a safety valve, and democratized America

  10. Native American Wars • Natives relied on Buffalo for their main source of food • Treaties continued to be signed and broken by the U.S. Govt. • Late 1800’s Govt. & Indians finally clashed

  11. Little Bighorn River • Crazy Horse led Sioux warriors against Col. Custer in 1876 • Custer and 210 soldiers killed • Wounded Knee Creek- U.S. govt. killed over 300 Sioux in 1890

  12. Chief Joseph- led the Nez Perce Indians and begged for his people to be left alone • Reservation- area of fixed boundaries for Native Americans alone

  13. Reasons for Failures • Natives fought as groups not as one force • Tribes were small • U.S. Army was larger and had more advanced weapons

  14. Dawes Act 1887 • Govt. gave 160 acres of land to the head of households • Indians are traditionally hunters not farmers • Most sold or rented the land to whites • Goal was to Americanize the Indians

  15. Civil Rights for Natives • Dawes Act did very little • Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA)- was very corrupt • Most Natives lived in poverty on the reservations

  16. American Indian Movement- tried to achieve some compensation for the Natives in the 1970’s • Courts are rewarding tribes lost land and Casino rights today

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