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Question
What factors led to the
settlement of the West during
the Gilded Age (1870-1900)?
Warm-Up Question:
Please pick up the review sheet
from the desk in the front of the
room. Complete #1-10 ONLY!
$306 million
gold
Mining
towns in
were
& in
silver
was
formed
the West;
discovered
the
Needed
govt, at law
Comstock Lode
enforcement,
& businesses
Mining
Regions
of the
West
Chinese &
Latin American
immigrants came
to find gold
Nativism led
Congress to
pass the Chinese
Exclusion Act in
1882 which
ended Chinese
immigration
Ellis Island
Angel Island
Ranchers
used
the
Ranchers
& The
Cattle
Boom
By
1867,
ranchers
started
using
trains to ship
open range
graze
cattle totomeatpacking
cities like Chicago
longhorns during the
3 month long drive
Exodusters
Exodusters
were black
farmers who
moved West
to escape
crop liens &
Jim Crow laws
in the South
Exodusters
The
Plains
Indians
In 1865, 2/3
of all
Indians
Their culture
lived on the Great Plains
was dependent
upon the buffalo
& the horse
InIndians
1876, Americans
Wars flooded into
Sioux territory in South Dakota
when gold was discovered
Warstried to stop
WhenIndians
the U.S. army
The
Battle
of Wounded
Knee
in 1890
was
Sioux
ghost
dances, 200
men,
women,
thechildren
last Indian
in American
history
&
werewar
slaughtered
during
the
Battle of Wounded Knee
religious revival
among Indians
would banish white
settlers & restore
buffalo
Lands
by Native
Americans
(1894)
TheLost
Cession
of Indian
Territory
Conclusions
By 1890, the frontier was closed:
Miners, ranchers, & farmers
flooded West at the expense of
Indians
But, Westerners began to grow
frustrated due to their
dependency on Eastern
railroads, banks, & politicians
Closure Activity
What was the American West
in 1750? 1800? 1850? 1900?
Now that the United States has
acquired & occupied all lands
between the Atlantic & Pacific,
whats next?