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The Western Frontier

The Western Frontier. BY: Marcella. Transcontinental Railroad. Increased farm production in the west. Made travel and shipping goods much easer. Most immigrants worked on the Transcontinental Railroad because they would work for less money (hade almost no money when they came to the US).

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The Western Frontier

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  1. The Western Frontier BY: Marcella

  2. Transcontinental Railroad • Increased farm production in the west. • Made travel and shipping goods much easer. • Most immigrants worked on the Transcontinental Railroad because they would work for less money (hade almost no money when they came to the US). • Native Americans wore pushed off of their land to build the Transcontinental Railroad. A • The buffalo was wiped out. • Stretches across the US from cost to cost.

  3. Corral • Hunters drove a herd of buffalo into a corral or a closer. • In other words it was a big fenced in area that they would drive the buffalo into.

  4. Sodbuster • In 1877 a machines was made to cut through the sod that covered the grounds of the plains.

  5. Jerky • Buffalo that was cut into thin strips, then dried to become jerky. • The jerky didn't spoil easily.

  6. Reservation • A limited area set aside for Native Americans. • This is where the government let the Native Americans live. • Native Americans didn't want to live on reservations.

  7. Vaquero • Wore skilled riders who herded cattle on ranches in Mexico, California, and the Southwest.

  8. Cooperative • A group of farmers pooled their money to buy seeds and tools wholesale.

  9. Sod • Was hard that covered the Plains States.

  10. Crazy Horse & Sitting Bull • Crazy Horse was a Native American who defeated Custer at Little Big Horn. • Sitting Bull was a Native American who was murdered at Wounded Knee.

  11. Col. Custer • Custer was killed at Little Big Horn with only 225 men. • He didn’t want to wait for more men he wanted to fight when he thought that the opportunity to win the battle was at its highest when the troth was that he was out numbered at battle and he ended up getting him self and many others killed.

  12. Battle At Little Big Horn • Custer and his 225 men died. • Custer did not wait for more solders. Instead he attacked with only 225 men and lost.

  13. Dawes Act • Native Americans become farmers. • Splits the land for families. • Native Americans wore not used to this because they are used to living with all of their extended family not just part of it so they didn't like it to much.

  14. Homestead Act • Gives poor of the east 160 acres to farm for five years. • You hade to be the head of the family (man), or the age of 21, a citizen of the US, or has filed for citizenship. Those are the regulations of the Homestead Act.

  15. Farmers Alliance • Joined the struggle in the 1879s . • Spread from Texas through the South into the Plains States

  16. Populist Party • To help farmers. • Income tax, 8 hour work day, free silver, and limit RB rates.

  17. Ghost Dance • On the reservations the Lakota's and other Plains Indians turned to a regions ceremony called the Ghost Dance. • Celebrate the time when Natives wore free.

  18. THE END

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