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The American Frontier: Evolution and Challenges

Explore the impact of the Gold Rush, Homestead Act, and Populist movement in shaping American history. From territorial expansion to economic struggles, uncover the dynamic forces that defined the fading frontier era.

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The American Frontier: Evolution and Challenges

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  1. Chapter 26 Part 2

  2. 59’ers • Colorado and Nevada Gold Rush • Allowed for payment of specie payment in 1879

  3. Women’s voting • Wyoming (1869) • Followed by Utah (1870), Colorado (1893), and Idaho (1896)

  4. Homestead act 1862 • Cheap land with commitment to live on and improve it over 5 year period. • Land not good for farming

  5. Fading Frontier • Fredrick Jackson Turner: • Significance of the Frontier in Am. History • Democracy and Innovation in moving west • No more frontier line

  6. Farmers Woes • Floods & Drought • Low selling of product high purchase of manufactured goods • Grangers • Led by Oliver Kelley • Enhance lives of isolated farmers

  7. Populists • Formed out of the Farmers Alliance • Nationalize railroads and telephones • Graduated income tax • Free and unlimited coinage of silver

  8. Election of 1896 • Republican: McKinley • Gold standard • Government Aid of business • East • Democrat: William Jennings Bryan • “Cross of Gold Speech” • Silver standard (inflation) • South and West

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