![Key Tensions
Ethnic
Minorities
Nativists
Environmentalists Big Business
Local Gov. Officials
Farmers
Buffalo Hunters
Lawlessness of
the Frontier
“Civilizing” Forces
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The old west
This document summarizes key groups and events related to the settlement of the American West between 1850-1900. It describes the miners who migrated west during the gold rush and discusses the expansion of the railroad. Native Americans faced declining buffalo populations, conflicts with settlers over land, and forced relocation to reservations. Cowboys worked on ranches during the rise of the cattle industry. Pioneer farmers settled the plains with support from homestead acts but faced challenges of the environment. The document outlines tensions between competing groups and the establishment of policies that shaped the development of the Western frontier.
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- 4. Population Changes in theWest, 1850 to 1900
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- 6. 1. Miners 2. RailroadCompanies 3. Cowboys & Ranchers 4. Native Americans 5. White farmers 6. Ethnic Minorities (Blacks, Hispanics, & Asians)
- 7. Key Tensions Native Americans Buffalo Hunters Railroads U.S. Gov. Cattlemen Sheep Herders Ranchers Farmers
- 8. Key Tensions Ethnic Minorities Nativists Environmentalists BigBusiness Local Gov. Officials Farmers Buffalo Hunters Lawlessness of the Frontier “Civilizing” Forces [The “Romance” of the West]
- 9. Group: Miners Key Events –1848: a series of “big strikes” in CA, NV, CO • Key People – ’49ers – Civil War Vets – Young men – Some families
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- 21. Promontory Point, UT (May10, 1869)
- 22. Group: Laborers/Workers • KeyPeople – Irish: from East – Chinese: from West – African Americans
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- 26. The Buffalo Soldierson the Great Plains
- 27. The “Chinese Question” Exclusion Act (1882) - Oriental Exclusion Act - Chinese Exclusion Act
- 28. Group: Native Americans •Key Events – Chivington (aka Sand Creek) Massacre: 200+ Natives killed – Custer’s Last Stand: 200 Americans killed – Battle of Wounded Knee: 300 Natives killed • Key People – Col Chivington – Gen. Custer – Sitting Bull – Crazy Horse
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- 31. Group: Native Americans •Government Policies/ Legislation – Reservation system – Broken treaties – Dawes Act- tried “Americanization”
- 32. Colonel John Chivington Killand scalp all, big and little! Sandy Creek, CO Massacre November 29, 1864
- 33. Capt. William J.Fetterman 80 soldiers massacred December 21, 1866
- 34. Gold Found in theBlack Hills of the Dakota Territory! 1874
- 35. The Battle ofLittle Big Horn 1876 Chief Sitting Bull Gen. George Armstrong Custer
- 36. Chief Joseph Iwill fight no more forever! Nez Percé tribal retreat (1877)
- 37. Geronimo, Apache Chief:Hopeless Cause
- 38. Helen Hunt Jackson ACentury of Dishonor (1881) Ramona (1884)
- 39. Dawes Severalty Act(1887): Assimilation Policy Carlisle Indian School, PA
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- 41. Chief Big Foot’sLifeless Body Wounded Knee, SD, 1890
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- 45. Group: Cowboys/Ranchers • KeyEvents – Corralling + Branding + Long drive to railroads – 1883- droughts – 1887- blizzard – 1880- barbed wire ends the open range
- 46. Group: Cowboys/Ranchers • KeyPeople: – Joseph McKoy: ran Abilene stockyard – Buffalo Bill Hickok’s Wild West show – Calamity Jane
- 47. Group: Cowboys/Ranchers • Cultural characteristics: –Boots – Spurs – Chaps – 6 shooters – Good songs – Loneliness
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- 54. Group: Farmers • GovernmentPolicies/ Legislation – Homestead Act of 1862: 160 acres of free land – Morrill Act: Est. farm colleges – Hatch Act: Funds farm research NCSU Freshman class 1889
- 55. Group: Farmers • Culturalcharacteristics – Sod houses – Dugouts – Plows – Windmills – Reapers
- 56. The Reality: “MyFirst House in Neb, 1880”
- 57. A Pioneer’s SodHouse, SD
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- 60. Yellowstone National Park Firstnational park established in 1872.
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- 62. Conservation Movement John Muir WithPresident Theodore Roosevelt
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