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Settling the West
1865 – 1900
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Miners
• Comstock Lode of gold & silver discovered in Nevada: pure silver ore discovered by Henry Comstock
• Thousands of miners come to Virginia City to seek their fortune.
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Virginia City becomes a
• Boomtown with opera house, hotels, newspapers. Crime & Vigilantees too.
http://www.goodoldsongs.com/
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Pikes Peak
• Gold discovery in 1858
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Leadville, Co.
• Lead worth $1 billion worth of silver & gold.
• Railroads are built to haul it out.
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Gold, Silver, Copper
• Black Hills : Dakotas = gold
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1889 Montana, N.S. Dakota
Admitted into the Union.
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Railroads
• Haul heavy loads out.
• Bring new settlers in.
• Bring in supplies.
• Economic Growth
• More Settlers.
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Farming The Plains
• The Great American Desert
• Rapid settlement of the West
• Relief found through technical advances
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Homestead Act
With a $ 10 registration fee, a settler could claim up to 160 acres of public land
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Later Acts gave more land.
• Government gave railroads huge tracts of land that they later sold to farmers
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Life is very difficult.
• No trees, little water, sod homes
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Hot in the Summer
• Dry, hot summers
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Freezing in the Winter
• Hailstorms
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Dry Farming
• Grasshopper plagues
• Prairie fires
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Sod Busters
• Hard Work
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Wheat is the Crop!!
• Bountiful harvests made the U.S. the exporter of wheat by 1880.
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Trouble
• Falling prices
• Drought
• Mortgage the farm
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Many Left.
• Return to Kansas……
• But not in a car..
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Small farmers succeed.
• Grow smaller crops….
• Family Farms
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Mechanical Reapers
• Speed the Growing Process
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Innovations increased Supply
• Lowered cost of production, especially Wheat..
• Steel Wind Mills
• Reapers
• Barbed Wire
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1890’s
• The farmer’s frontier is gone. No more free land was available.
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Hard Times for Farmers
• Too much supply , lowers the price, and fewer farmers can survive.
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Ranchers
• Chisholm trail Cattle Drive Begins
• 1.5 million cattle between 1867 & 1871 to Abilene, Kansas.
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Longhorn Cattle
• Tough – survive in harsh environments
• Great Plains
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Cowboys
• Hard work, low pay, short careers
• The Cattle Drive
• Myth of the Cowboy
• Changes in the cattle industry
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Barbed Wire
• Fight between Farmers & Ranchers
• Fence off areas of the open range for farming
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Dangers
• Oversupply of Animals = low prices
• Blizzards
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Culture of the Plains Indians
• Nomads
• Fighting emphasizing skill and courage
• Efficient Hunters
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Before 1850=
Little conflict, settlers did not want the desert.
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Post Civil War
• Railroads want protection, Army builds forts.
• Reports of good farmland.
• Gold Discoveries.
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Treaty of 1868 promised
• The Sioux that they could live in their sacred land, The Black Hills, forever…
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Forever, ended
• With the gold discoveries.
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Discovery of Gold in Black Hills
• Doom for the Indians..
• 7th Calvary was called out to remove the Indians.
• George Armstrong Custer led them.
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General Custer
• 7th Calvary
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Dakota Sioux Uprising
• Sioux felt cheated by the US government
• Did not want to give up their culture
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Chief Little Crow
On the Dakota Reservation , the Indians are given annuities, or payments yearly. Chief asks for food on credit for his people. They are told to eat grass
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Uprise and kill settlers
• Hundreds die before the Calvary arrive to restore order.
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Red Cloud, Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull
• Native American Leaders fight to keep control of their hunting grounds.
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Native Americans
• Sand Creek Massacre
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1862:Colorado
• Indians fight back- starving –
• Peaceful Indians report to Fort Lyon for safety.
• Col. Chivington attacked the Indians in the fort, killing 450= Chivington Massacre.
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Reservations
• Give up the Nomad life.
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Battle of Little Bighorn
• Custer’s Last Stand on June 25, 1876
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Indians led by Sitting Bull & Crazy Horse
Custer & 215 of his men are killed.
This marks the greatest and last of the Plain’s Indians victories.
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Crazy Horse surrenders1877
Killed.
Ghost Dance Shirt.
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Sitting Bull
“The Best of all the others.”
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Crazy Horse
• A strong warrior with great military tactics.
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Sitting Bull escaped to Canada
• Eventually joined Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show.
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Tragedy of Wounded Knee
• Dec.29, 1890, The Sioux began a Ghost Dance, which they believed would take them to their ancestors.
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Agents feared violence & sent
For the 7th Calvary.
350 Sioux- women, children, old men
200 Indians are killed.
25 Army Die.
Machine guns used.
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Assimilation
• Blend in, Give up Identity.
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Dawes Act
• Allowed US president to divide Native American land
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Another Failed Plan
• Not so good.
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President Hayes
• 1877 - 1881
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President Garfield Assassinated
• 1881
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Chester Arthur
• 1881 - 1885
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Grover Cleveland
• 1885 - 1889
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Dawes Act 1887
• Eliminates communal ownership of Native American Reservations.
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President Benjamin Harrison
• 1889-1993
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President Grover Cleveland
• 1893-1897
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William McKinley
• 1897-1901
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