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- 4. Key Tensions Native Americans • Railroads • U. S. Gov. • Bison hunters Ranchers Farmers
- 6. Groups of the West: 1. Miners 2. Railroads 3. Cowboys 4. Farmers 5. Native Americans
- 7. Miners
- 8. 1848 California Gold Rush
- 9. 1848 California Gold Rush
- 11. • 1859 Comstock Silver Lode, NV • 1850s-1890s: Colorado • 1874 Black Hills, SD Gold Rush • 1896 Klondike Gold Rush, Yukon
- 12. Panning
- 13. Sluicing
- 14. Prospecting
- 21. Miners Key Events: • 1848 California Gold Rush • 1859 Comstock Silver Lode, NV • 1850s-1890s: Colorado • 1874 Black Hills, SD Gold Rush • 1896 Klondike Gold Rush,Yukon
- 22. Miners Key People: • ’49s • CivilWar veterans • Young men • Immigrants
- 23. Miners Government Policies: • Vigilante justice • Land grants to mining companies
- 24. Miners Cultural Characteristics: • Surface mining • Panning • Sluicing • Mine shafts
- 25. Railroads
- 27. Union Pacific + Central Pacific = Transcontinental RR Promontory Point, UT, May 10, 1869
- 28. Railroads Key People Irish and African Americans : from East Chinese: from West
- 29. Hell on Wheels
- 30. Railroads Key Events: • 1869 – transcontinental RR completed at Promontory Point, Utah
- 31. Railroads Key People: • CivilWar vets • Irish • African Americans • Chinese
- 32. Railroads Government Policies: • Land to RR companies • Union Pacific RR (E toW) • Central Pacific RR (W to E)
- 33. Railroads Cultural Characteristics: • Hell on Wheels camps
- 34. Cowboys
- 35. Ranchers • Long drives • Chisholm Trail • 1880 - barbed wire • 1883- droughts • 1887- blizzards
- 36. • Cowboy culture: – Mexican vaquero traditions – Boots – Spurs – Chaps – 6 shooters – Good songs – Loneliness
- 39. Cowboys Key Events: • 1880 – barbed wire • 1883 – droughts • 1887 – blizzards
- 40. Cowboys Key People: • Joseph McKoy • Buffalo Bill Hickok
- 41. Cowboys Government Policies: • Open range system • Transcontinental RR
- 42. Cowboys Cultural Characteristics: • Multiethnic • Mexican vaquero traditions • Branding • Corralling • RR drives • Refrigerator cars
- 43. Farmers
- 45. The Reality:“My First House in Neb, 1880”
- 46. A Pioneer’s Sod House, SD
- 49. Morrill Act: farm colleges NCSU Freshman class 1889
- 50. Farmers Key Events: • 1862 Homestead Act • 1889 OK Land Rush
- 51. Farmers Key People: • Homesteader families • Exodusters led by Benjamin Singleton
- 52. Farmers Government Policies: • Homestead Act of 1862 • Morrill Land Grant Act of 1862
- 53. Farmers Cultural Characteristics: • Sod houses and dugouts • Plows and reapers • Windmills • Barbed wire • Dependence on railroads and eastern banks
- 54. Native Americans
- 57. 1871-1875: 11,000,000 bison slaughtered!
- 60. Buffalo Soldiers
- 61. 1864: Sand Creek, CO Massacre
- 62. 1866-1868: Red Cloud’s War • vs. white setters on Bozeman Trail • Fetterman Massacre, 1866 – 81 soldiers killed
- 63. Treaty of Ft. Laramie, 1868 • established Great Sioux Reservation • encouraged native transition to farming and "white man's way of life"
- 64. 1876: Battle of Little Big Horn Sitting Bull vs. George Armstrong Custer
- 65. 1877: Nez Percé retreat led by Chief Joseph
- 66. Helen Hunt Jackson A Century of Dishonor (1881) Ramona (1884)
- 67. Geronimo, Apache Chief 1886 surrender = end of native resistance
- 68. Dawes Severalty Act (1887): Assimilation Policy Carlisle Indian School, PA
- 71. Natives Key Events: • 1864 Chivington Sand Creek Massacre • 1866-1868 Red Cloud’sWar • 1868 Treaty of Ft. Laramie • 1876 Battle of Little Big Horn/Custer’s Last Stand • 1880s Ghost Dance • 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre
- 72. Natives Key People: • Red Cloud of Lakota • Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse of Sioux • Chief Joseph of Nez Perce • Geronimo of Apache • Col. John Chivington • Col. George Armstrong Custer • Buffalo soldiers • Helen Hunt Jackson’s Century of Dishonor
- 73. Natives Government Policies: • Reservations • Broken treaties (Ft. Laramie) • Dawes Severalty Act
- 74. Natives Cultural Characteristics: • Nomadic dependence on bison • Slaughter of bison led to starvation/end of lifestyle