During the 1800s there was inventions made to make farmers like alot easier. in 1830 it too almost a weeks time more than in 1900 to produce a bushel of grain. Spain brought horses over so it could be easier to hunt. whites pretty much took the land from the indians. they didnt improve the land they just stayed on it and didnt do much. Lure silver and gold was a big deal. in 1858 gold and silver were found. Everyone went out there to look for gold and silver. Towns would rise up then soon as the gold wasnt there the town went bare cause pretty much everyone left.
The indians got the great plains. Novemeber 29th 1864 U.S. invaded indian territory. Over 150 indians were killed mainly women and children. the native amerians had alot of land in 1819 but they lost alot alot of land over time. Everyone want to kill.
Mexicans taught us how to breed and work the cattle. Spanish brought horses over to work the animals. Cowboys werent in demand until railroads reached thhe great plains. Cattle are crazy animals. 55,000 worked the plains between 1866and 1885. Cowboys didnt really use guns unless they had to. All the long horns were rounded up and they were branded. Cowboys lived off the land pretty much and did everything to live. James Butler was a spy during the civil war. Winter in 1886-1887 the cattle died my the thousands, The weather was so bad thecowboys didnt knmow wat to do.
Teh good top soil was very bad not fertal. farmers didnt have the money or the land to get animals or anything. Alot went into debt. The farmers didnt have the rail roads like they had. it was really high pricesed to ship there grain, FARMERS HAD A HARD LIFE!!!!
populisim is the move of comon people and farmers. what they wanted money graduated income tax fedral loan program ekection of popular vote single terms for president and vice president sercret ballet to end vote frqaud eight our work day restrictions on imigration. in 1892 the pouilist were trying to get people into the new government, government was losing gold cause the purchase of silver. once this happened people traded paper money for gold. There also drove the value of money for gold. gold bugs wanted deflation.
one of the biggest industries were the rail roads.
Carnegies was the largest steel company in the world. Carnegies was in the railroad and made loads of money. vertical integration buy out your suppliers in railroad lines and ship everything and horizontal integration steel buying out other steel companies so they get rich. John D. Rockfeller controlled the largest oil company in the U.S. Rockfeller was the worlds first billionair. Women and children got treated like crap. Men got paid twice as much. WHat the labor unions wanted was paid equally and same jobs skilled unskilled blacks and whites all in one union. IWW were industry workers of the world also known as Wobblies They were very soicilist.. The haymarket affair several workers died and so did some police.
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