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Chapter 7

Chapter 7. Looking to the West Section 1 – moving west Section 2 – conflicts with Native Americans Section 3 - Mining, Ranching, and Farming Section 4 – populism. Factors that encouraged westward migration. Push Civil war Cost of land Religious persecution Europe America

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Chapter 7

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  1. Chapter 7 • Looking to the West • Section 1 – moving west • Section 2 – conflicts with Native Americans • Section 3 - Mining, Ranching, and Farming • Section 4 – populism

  2. Factors that encouraged westward migration • Push • Civil war • Cost of land • Religious persecution • Europe • America • Shelter for outlaws • Second chance for failures in the east • Explain Each • Pull • Cheap or free land • Homestead Act, 1862, 160 acres if farmed for 5 years • Railroads – How? • Laws respected property rights

  3. How did the US Gov deal with the Native Americans? • Basic Problem – N.A. already occupied the land • NA wanted to continue their way of life • Americans wanted to use land “properly” • Bureau of Indian Affairs – negotiated treaties with NA • What were the problems with the BIA

  4. Indian Wars • In 1871 America stopped making treaties with the NA, solved disagreements with war • NA – strategies, advantages, disadvantages • US Gov – strategy, advantages, disadvantages • Key Battles – only a few large battles • Sand Creek Massacre • NA could not adequately protect their women and children • Battle of Little Big Horn • US army took the Sioux more seriously and without the freedom to follow buffalo herds, NA lacked food and supplies • Battle of Wounded Knee • last major violence of the Indian Wars

  5. Indian Policies • Assimilation • NA children in white schools to teach Christianity and white ways – Why? • Dawes Act – what and why did it fail • Reservation System • NA dependency on the US government • Problems with the system • Oklahoma – Sooners (April 22, 1889)

  6. Mining • Where? • Why? • How? – different techniques

  7. Ranching • Cattle Industry Boom • Why? • Where? • Cattle baron?

  8. Farming • Homesteaders? • New Farm Inventions? • Bonanza Farms? • Dry Farming?

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