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Ch. 5.2:
-How did railroads and the Homestead Act help settle the Great Plains?
-What challenges did settlers face on the Great Plains?
-What problems did farmers face on the Great Plains?Notes:Homestead act was passed in 1
-Death on the Bozeman Trail (December 1866)-trail ran directly through sioux hunting grounds in the bighorn mountains. after unsuccessfully ending white settlement on the trail, Warrior Crazy Horse attacked Captain William J. Fetterman and his army a
progressivism-bringing change to the country!
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Segregation & Discrimanation
African Americans Fight Legal Discrimination
Effected:
African Americans, Native Americans, Mexican residents, and Chinese immigrants
Voting Restrictions
- In southern states blacks couldn't vote or had to be able to read an
Work Day!!!
Going to start working on the powerpoint and putting everything together.
Chapter 7 section 3
Ch. 7.3
Define the Gilded age: the excesses of the late 19th century in Mark Twains satirical novel called The Gilded Age
-- What was the po
Taft Becomes President (Accomplishments)
- he becomes president in 1904 but he never wanted to be president
- his legal victories, such as busting 90 trusts in a four- year term
-he passed the Payne Bill, which was supposed to lower the rates on impor
What did some people do to help the problems in the cities?
* they started a program called the Social Gospel movement, which preached the message of salvation through to the poor.
* they established the settlement houses, which were community centers
Another workday for our presentation
Chapter 9 section 3:
Theodore unwanted
-Theodore Roosevelt was not supported to be president
-he was pushed to run as McKinley's vice president by political bosses and so that took him out of state office
-McKinle
