Topic 10.2 The West is Transformed 1865-1900 Mining, Ranching, and Farming 2.9, 3.1, 3.5.
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Transcript of Topic 10.2 The West is Transformed 1865-1900 Mining, Ranching, and Farming 2.9, 3.1, 3.5.
Topic 10.2The West is Transformed
1865-1900
Mining, Ranching, and Farming
2.9, 3.1, 3.5
“Comstock Lode”
Placer Mining – Using picks, shovels, and pans.
Quartz Mining – Dug deep beneath the surface. -Dynamite
Henry Comstock –Right
Staked a claim in Six Mile Canyon, Nevada.
Vigilance Committees – self appointed volunteers punishing wrongdoers.
Boom Town: Virginia City http://www.ghosttowns.co
m/states/nm/nm.html
The Transcontinental Railroad Impacts the Frontier Transcontinental Railroad: Linked the east
and west Land Grants: Government land given to RR
companies to sell Central Pacific: Sacramento, California (Chinese
Immigrants) Union Pacific: Omaha, Nebraska (Irish, German,
African American) 1869: Promontory Point, Utah: Place that
country was officially “connected” with GOLDEN SPIKE
“ The Long Drive”
Open Range – A vast area of grassland owned by the government.
Long Drive – From either Abilene or Dodge City in Kansas to Sedalia, Missouri.
Chisholm Trail – A town that rivaled the mining towns in terms of rowdiness.
Mavericks – stray calves with no identifying symbols
“Range Wars”-open fighting between cattle ranchers (Cowboys)
William H.
Bonney:
“Billy the Kid”
Lincoln County
War: N.Mex.
Major Cattle Trails on the LONG DRIVE
“End of Long Drive”
Barbed Wire – enabled hundreds of square miles to be fenced off cheaply and easily. –Joseph Glidden (Right Pic.)
Refrigerated Rail Car -Gustavus Swift (Left
Pic.)
“Great American Desert”
Great Plains – Extended westward to the Rocky Mountains from around the 100th meridian.
Stephen Long – Explored the region with an army expedition in 1819.
Homestead Act – For a $10 registration fee, an individual could file for a homestead.
Homestead – A tract of public land available for settlement.
Exodusters
Farming the Plains
Dry Farming – Plant seeds deep in the ground where there was enough moisture for them to grow.
Sodbusters – those who plowed the soil on the Plains.
Bonanza Farms – Large Corporate Farms that often yielded big profits. Drove Small Family Farms out of Business.
Mexicans Americans Defend Property Rights
• Abuse and Discrimination Undermine Rights
• Courts backed white Americans land claims most of the time
• Las Gorras Blancas: Extremist group who targeted large ranch owners with terror tactics
• Alianza Hispano-Americana: Organization formed to protect Mexican-American Culture