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U.S. History Top 100

U.S. History Top 100. What every student should know to pass the U.S. History EOC. Goal 4. Goal 4: The Great West and the Rise of the Debtor (1860-1896). The learner will evaluate the great westward movement and assess the impact of the agricultural revolution on the nation.

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U.S. History Top 100

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  1. U.S. History Top 100 What every student should know to pass the U.S. History EOC. Goal 4

  2. Goal 4: The Great West and the Rise of the Debtor (1860-1896) • The learner will evaluate the great westward movement and assess the impact of the agricultural revolution on the nation.

  3. Government Incentives Pacific Railway Acts Morrill Land-Grant Act Homestead Act Private Property Miners Cattle ranchers Farmers Motivation for Westward Movement

  4. Challenges of Westward Movement • Lack of resources; wood and water • Severe weather, bugs, floods, prairie fires, dust storms, drought • Conflicts with Native Americans

  5. Improvements in Agriculture • Mechanized reaper – reduced labor force • Steel plow – cut through dense sod • Barbed wire – kept cattle off crops • Windmills – powers irrigation systems • Hybridization – allowed greater yields

  6. Transcontinental Railroad, 1869 • Union Pacific began in Omaha in 1865 and went west. Central Pacific went east from Sacramento and met the Union Pacific Railroad at Promontory Point, Utah.

  7. Dawes Act, 1887 • It tried to dissolve Indian tribes by redistributing the land. Designed to forestall growing Indian poverty, it resulted in many Indians losing their lands to speculators.

  8. Helen Hunt Jackson • A muckraker whose book exposed the unjust manner in which the U.S. government had treated the Indians. Protested the Dawes Severalty Act.

  9. Cross of Gold Speech, 1896 • Given by William Jennings Bryan, he said people must not be "crucified on a cross of gold", referring to the Republican proposal to eliminate silver coinage and adopt a strict gold standard.

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