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When the europeans brought guns and horses to the Indians it caused many wars over hunting teritory. The women took care of the camps and the children. women made things out of the animal hides that the men killed. White settlers pushed Native americans out of there land and took it over. The gold rush brought 10s of thousands of people out west. People came from all over the world to mine. In 1834 the government passed an act that gave reserves to all the indians. in 1864 the us invated native american teritory. Crazy horse attacked an american army and killed 80 soilders.
5-2 Settling on the great plains
RailRoads
In 1862 congress funded the pacific railroad by buying land for them to be built on. Most of the workers who built it were chinese. In 1869 both companies met at promintary point Utah. they drove a golden spike at the intercetion.
Homestead act
People could take some land and live on it for five years and it would become theres. Many people went broke or didnt have enough food so they went back to the city. Many people built fences around there land and raised cattle. in 1889 the government gave away land to over 2 million people in Oklahoma.
Dugouts and soddiers Many settlers build there house into the side of a hill. They did this because of lack of trees.This had advantages and disadvantaces. The women helped the men in the field and They also took care of there kids and house chores.
Agricutural Education
Causes by the moral act of 1862 and 1890. This helpped finace collages in the western states.
Closing the Frontier
In 1872 yellow stone was created to protect the wilderness. In 1879 the department of interior forced rail roads to give up there land. in 1880 people had boughten 19 million dollars in government land. In 1890 the cenus bureau claimed that the western frontier didnt exist. During the 1800-1900 many new farming techniques were invented. New machinery was expensive so farmers had to barrow money any where they could get it. often times they many of them could not pay this maney back. In 1885-1890 the plains experienced a drought. Many of the Banaza farms went bankrupt. The rail road charged the western farmers more money to haul grain then the eastern farmers. assimiliation/ dawes act americans americans buffalo population droped. sioux were suffering from poverty snd disease the americans killed 300 indians in one day. cowboy life today stemed from spanish rachers, carrol was barroed. cattel drive lasted 3 mouths. teh oopen rance was where there was no fences.
5-3 in the 1880s farmers are in a bad fincncilas sopt. teh ecoomy was going bad. farmer started to organize. tehy sent speakers from town to town. tehy had over 4 million members. populism movement of the people. they wanted a federal loan program electied by the people. government lost money.
6.1 expassion of industry on lake erri made accessing materials easyer.alex bell made the second best phone 60 years later they became the best industrilized nation.
6.2 they did not have rail roads to the towns 2000 rail road workers got killed.
6.3 carnegie had teh first steel factory made mor steel the great britian. social darwinsim explains the process of natural selection. jonh d rockefeller controoled teh largest oil company in the us. child labors ages 5 to 15 they work full time jobs. skilled worker formed small local unions.iww also known as teh wobblies . the homested strike caused by cutting wages. pullman fired so of the strikers. women had powerful leaders to demand their rights. marry harris jones fought tell she died.
7.1 they wanted religous freedom. chinese helped build railroads. they were comming over on steamships. 2.3 million came throu elles island. the pulled money to build churches.some hated tehre religon more thabn ethnic. THEY HAD TO READ 40 WORDS IN ENGLISW AND TEHERE OWN LANGUAGE. Japanese almost got teh same but fought back.
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