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Rise of Industrialization Unit 1: Civil War, Reconstruction, Westward Expansion

Rise of Industrialization Unit 1: Civil War, Reconstruction, Westward Expansion. OHS HISTORY TEAM. Learning Objectives. Explain how the Homestead Act and the Transcontinental Railroad impacted the settlement of the West. Examine federal policies towards American Indians

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Rise of Industrialization Unit 1: Civil War, Reconstruction, Westward Expansion

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  1. Rise of IndustrializationUnit 1: Civil War, Reconstruction, Westward Expansion OHS HISTORY TEAM

  2. Learning Objectives • Explain how the Homestead Act and the Transcontinental Railroad impacted the settlement of the West. • Examine federal policies towards American Indians • Explain the impact of the Compromise of 1877

  3. Big Concepts • Americans pushed west in search of economic opportunity. • Native Americans fought and lost to keep their lands. • Some pushed west to expand slavery • The conflict over slavery led to the American Civil War • North wins the war and must rebuild South = Reconstruction • Millions of slaves were freed become freedmen • Republicans want to help freedmen Democrats do not • Reconstruction ended in 1877.

  4. Nine Essential Vocabulary Terms

  5. #1: Homestead Act • encouraged Western migration • providing settlers 160 acres of public land.

  6. #2 Transcontinental Railroad • 1,912-mile continuous railroad line constructed • Built by Union Pacific and Central Pacific • Great engineering achievement • Built by – Chinese and Irish immigrants and Civil War veterans

  7. #3 Reservation • is a legal designation for an area of land managed by Native American tribe

  8. #4 Assimilation • Process of minority group becoming like majority group

  9. #5 Dawes Act • An Act to Provide land to Native Americans on reservations. • Designed to destroy tribal systems • Self over Tribe

  10. #6 Compromise of 1877 1876 Election – Hayes (Rep) vs Tilden (Dem) Close election no clear winner Republicans and Democrats “compromise” Southern Democrats = Union troops leave and stop protecting African Americans Republicans = Get the presidency (Rutherford B. Hayes)

  11. #7Plessy v. Ferguson • is a U.S. Supreme Court case • Allowed states to pass segregation laws

  12. #8 Jim Crow Laws • state and local laws that enforced racial segregation • disenfranchised, or restricted, the rights of African Americans. • Poll Tax, Literacy Test = examples of voting disenfranchisement

  13. #9 Benjamin “Pap” Singleton and the Exodusters • African Americans who migrated from the South to Kansas. • It was the first general migration of black people following the Civil War. • Pap Singleton, from Nashville TN, led this migration.

  14. Chronological Time Line 1865- Civil War Ends. Reconstruction Starts 1896- Plessy vs Ferguson 1877 –End Reconstruction 1861- Civil War Starts 1862- Homestead Act 1869- Transcontinental Railroad Completed 1887- Dawes Act

  15. Change Continuity Americans continue migrating Slavery has ended African Americans become free citizens Native Americans are forced onto reservations Southern states become racially segregated The country is linked by railroads

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