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.
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