Slide 1
Westward Expansion
1865-1914
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Slide 2
U.S. Land Acquired in the 1800s
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Slide 3
Manifest Destiny
• Americans
believed they
should own all the
land from the
Atlantic Ocean to
the Pacific Ocean;
coast to coast.
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Slide 4
The Gold Rush!
Eureka!!!!!!!
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Slide 5
Gold Rush-1849 - 1870
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Gold was discovered in
California in 1849.
The Comstock Lode, a
Bonanza, was later
discovered.
People who moved west to
mine are called miners.
Immigrants, such as Mexicans,
Chinese and the Irish, went to
work in the mines.
Immigrants were treated poorly
with long hours, low pay and
very dangerous work.
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Slide 6
People moved West to find gold.
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Slide 7
Boom towns and Ghost towns.
Gold or Silver strike
1. Miners arrive and build a small town.
2. More people come to sell supplies.
3. Real houses get built.
Boom Town
1. Gold or silver production falls – decreases.
2. Miners move on.
3. The town is abandoned.
Ghost Town.
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Slide 8
Working on the mine.
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Slide 9
African Americans Moved West.
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Slide 10
African Americans were called
Exodusters.
• Many African Americans
moved to the West from
the 1840s to late 1890s.
• They were escaping the
difficult life in the South
where Whites practiced
Jim Crow Laws and
denied African Americans
their new Constitutional
Rights.
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Slide 11
Why were African Americans
called Exodusters?
• African Americans were called Exodusters
after the book from the Bible called the
Exodus.
• This book described how the Jews
escaped from slavery in Egypt.
• The African Americans were escaping
slavery in the South, just as Jews escaped
slavery from Egypt. That is why they were
called Exodusters.
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Slide 12
The Homestead Act of 1862.
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Slide 13
An application for land.
• People staked their
claim by finding a
section of land that
was marked.
• Then they registered
the piece of land with
the government.
• After cultivating the
land for five years, it
was theirs for free.
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Slide 14
Homesteaders.
• People moved West to stake their claim.
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Slide 15
People traveled West on wagon roads,
and on the railroad and by steamship.
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Slide 16
Plowfarms, plows and families in
front of their sodhouses.
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Slide 17
A difficult life for the farmers.
• Farmers had to cut through thick, hard earth
called sod.
• Winters were harsh; cold, windy with a lot of
snowstorms called blizzards.
• Summers were hot and had little rain.
• Farmers had to use a technique called dryfarming (growing crops that needed little water.)
• Sometimes grasshoppers would eat all the
crops.
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Slide 18
Farmers in crisis.
• Farmers could not repay their debts.
• The Populist party tried to help farmers. They
wanted government to reduce railroad rates and
to help with (falling) decreasing prices for grain.
• Populists wanted all the silver mined in the West
to be turned into coinage (money).
• Free silver would make it easier for farmers to
repay their debts.
• The United States did not turn silver into money.
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Slide 19
The Cattle Kingdom.
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Slide 20
Cowboys and Vaqueros.
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Slide 21
Ranchers and Cowhands drove the
cattle to the Transcontinental Railroad.
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Slide 22
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Slide 23
Why did the Cattle Kingdom fail?
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Slide 24
The Transcontinental Railroad
finished in 1869.
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Slide 25
Many Immigrants, such as Irish, Mexicans
and Chinese were building the Railroad.
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Slide 26
The Union Pacific meets the
Central Pacific in Utah in 1869.
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Slide 27
Impact of the Railroads.
• Railroads brought growth and new settlement all
across the West.
• The railroads enabled people, supplies, and mail
to move quickly and cheaply and safer across
the plains and the mountains.
• The largest cities and towns developed where
major railroad lines met.
• Because of their rapid growth, western territories
began to apply for statehood. Nevada, Colorado,
North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and
Washington all became states from 1864 –
1890.
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Slide 28
The Railroad spurs the growth of
other industries.
• The lumber industry grows, because wood
is needed to build the train tracks.
• The steel industry grows because steel is
needed to build the tracks.
• The coal industry grows because coal is
needed to fuel the train.
• The growth of these industries opens
thousands of new jobs for workers.
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Slide 29
The Great Plains
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Slide 30
Blue skies and open prairies.
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Slide 31
The location of the Great Plains.
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Slide 32
These are the states on the Plains.
• Homesteaders came to
the Plains to farm the
land.
• Miners searched for gold.
• Railroad companies built
the train.
• Exodusters came to
Kansas to start a new life
and later became miners
and Homesteaders and
worked on the railroad.
• Immigrants worked on
railroads and in mines
and became
Homesteaders.
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Slide 33
Native American Land
• Native Americans
lived here first.
• Native Americans
and Whites came
into bloody conflicts
over the land.
• They tried to protect
their lands, but
finally, the United
States government
forced them onto
reservations.
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Slide 34
Buffalo roamed the Plains.
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Slide 35
Plains Indians hunt the buffalo.
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Slide 36
The buffalo is used for tepees,
clothes, tools, food and more.
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Slide 37
The buffalo hide business becomes
popular and settlers kill millions of
buffalo.
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Slide 38
BROKEN PROMISES!
• The United States government made many
treaties with the Native Americans not to fight
and not to touch certain areas of their land.
• For example, The Fort Laramie Treaty was a
treaty made with the Cheyenne tribe, where
Americans said an area of land belonged to the
Cheyenne forever!
• However, when gold was discovered there, the
Americans forced them to sign a new treaty
giving up the land.
• The United States government broke many
treaties with the Native Americans.
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Slide 39
Many Wars. Many Heroes.
Many Wars
• Sioux War of 1876
Many Heroes
• Sitting Bull and
Crazy Horse
• The Apache Wars
• Battle of Little Bighorn
Geronimo
• Nez Perces
Chief Joseph
Lakotas & Cheyenne
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Slide 40
Indians defend their lands, but are
defeated in the end.
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Slide 41
Native Americans are forced onto
reservations.
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Slide 42
The Dawes Act divided Indian land and gave some
to the Indians in hopes they would become
farmers. But they sold it to Whites for low prices.
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Slide 43
Native Americans prayed for a new
world without Whites in the Ghost
Dance Religion.
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Slide 44
Laws today protect Native
American Reservations.
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Slide 45
Native Americans Today
• Today, many Native Americans are a part
of our society.
• However, many still live on reservations
and try to maintain their cultures.
• New laws returned some Native American lands
back to the rightful owners.
• How would you feel about your history if
you were a Native American?
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