We did presentations today! i dont think i will go today, but maybe!! my chapter and section was chapter 8 section 3. topic was segregation and discrimination.
Ch. 5-Changes on the Western Frontier
~Section 1: Cultures Clash on the Great Plains
-native american people were very simple abided by rules and hunted
-spanish brought over horses, that changed the way they hunted a lot.
- Coup sticks were popular.
-settlers believed that land was not owned.
-settlers moved west seeking more land.
-restrictions, the midwest was for the native americans
-disagreed and continued hunting
-death toll rises massacre of cheyenne at sand creek in 1864.
-killed 80 settlers; the battle of the hundred slain or the fetterman massacre.
-assimilation is native americans joining the "white" culture.
-1890 only 1000 of buffalo remained
-The Dawes Act, 160 acres per family and 80 for unmarried.
-Cowboys start in spring and round the cows up and make them starve which would make them graze.
-Cowboys career was good! on high demand! everyone wanted beef.
~Section 2: Settling on the Great Plains
-moved west. railroads help that!
-two companys union pacific and central pacific
-government gave the companys land to lay railroads on
-1862 homestead was passed the homestead act
- gave farmers 160 acres that they could do whatever they wanted with it, otherwise they would steal land and say its theres.
-had many challeges, floods, drought and winter storms.
-doug out is a house dug out of a hill. soddies were fireproof but many creatures could get into it.
-1837 John Deere invented the plow
-1847 Cyrus McCormick invented the reaping machine Morrill act of 1862 for agrilcture colleges.
~Section 3: Farmers and the Populist Movement
-greenbacks are money and are not backed by gold or silver
-after civil war they(greenbacks)ment nothing.
-populists was a political party, otherwise none as the peoples party
-that represented farmers and laborers in the 1890s.
-wanted inflation, free coinage of gold and silver, public ownership of railroads and graduated federal income tax.
Ch. 6-A New Industrial Age
Section 1: The Expansion on Industry
Section 2: The Age of the Railroads
-railroads made it possible for business.
-begining civil war 30,000 miles of track
-20,000 people injured each year and 2,000 were killed
-made 4 time zones
-time was important
-wea re in the central time zone
- interstate commerce act 1887, so ricjh guys wouldnt want to take all the money. government stepped in and helped the common person out a bit.
_farmers did not like the railroads
~Section 3: Big Business and Labor
-andrew carnegie looks like santa, spanish immgrant
-came across with the family, rags to riches story
-carnegie steel, pittsburg
-trying to create an monpoly
-made a forune in steel
-one busines determines the price of something is a monpoly
-trust=monpoly -competion is key in capitalism
-monpolys are very powerful compared to thd senators
-no one was helping the common people
-therapalist= people who give out many to people and foundations.
-John D Rockefeller, drove people out of businesses and jacked up monpoly.
-robber behrends thats what they though rockerfeller
-gave a lot of money to art and sciences
-mainly worked with oil, but he started with steel
-very powerful man with oil industry
-sherman anti-trust act
-capitons of industry
_ charles Darwin believed in evolution
-segway is like a transition
-children worked fkor less then adult which isnt very much
-many people wen ton strike
-went on strike for more pay and less hours
-people coming to get better pay and hours
- no one supported them at first.
-worksmanconpensation, you get paid if you got hurt on the job
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Ch. 7-Immigrants and Urbanization
Section 1: The New Immigrants
Section 2: The Challenges of Urbanization
Section 3: Politics in the Guilded Age
~Ch. 8-Life at the Turn of the Century
Section 1: Science and Urban Life
Section 2: Expanding Public Education
Section 3: Segregation and Discrimination
Section 4: The Dawn of Mass Culture
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