5.1
Gold rush- a lot of people came running during the gold rush and forced a lot of people out of their land.
1/4th of the cowboys were black. The cowboys barelly used their guns just to protect themselves and their cattle.
Buffalo suffered a big loss they went from 65,000,000 to 1000
5.2
Homestead Act- The government gave people the land to farm and if they stayed there for 10 years they get the land for free. A lot of the people left and didn't stay.
Transcontinental Railroad- the transcontinental railroad was one of the other rerasons that people came.
Dugouts and Soddies- people had to build their houses out of mud and grasson the great plains.
Women work- Women had to take care of the kids, clean, and help in the feild.
5.3
Farmer troubles- They couldn't pay bill so they lost their land. They had to give up farming. The prices kept going down so people wanted more so to keep up farmers had to plant more. As they kept paying more the prices kept going down. Soon the government started paying farmers money to stop growing.
The Grange - started out just telling farmers what is going on, but then it turned into a battle so people could ship their grain.
What they wanted- more money, better income tax, fed loan prog, single term for pres and vice pres, secret balet.
panic of 1893- farmers and businesses went of of business like it was out of style.
6.1
kept bringing stuff into cleveland for the city to grow. the clothing business peaked during this time.
6.2- mine
6.3- carnegie came here at the age of 7, he waas very poor. He grew up to be a rich man.
Social darwinism- explains the process of natural selection- charles darwin.
fewer control more- john D Rockefeller bought out other peoples businesses so he could make more money, he worked with another guy to make more money than they would, He was the worlds richest man, the world first billionaire.
strike-some of the factory workers went on strike and the NFL actually went on strike and they brought in scab players.
Strike turns violent- the strikers had a big fight with the employers and the employers started seding people to hurt them. This lady marched with 100's of children to rosevelts house and protested.
7.1
A better life- many people came over here for gold and jobs and many more reasons.
Most of them came through ellis island. Some of them came through Angel island.
Nativism-Anti ammigrant groups and acts. Some immigrants favored british, germany.
Immigration restriction League- People that hated immagrants.
7.2
Urbanization- Urbanization is the growth of cities mostly in the northeast.
Americanization- To make everyone the same culture and everything as the American culture.
Social gospal movement- preached salvation through service to the poor.
Settlement Houses- Help houses in the slum communities.
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