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CRQ Answers. Most railroads were located in the Northeast and Midwest. The railroad created the Eastern, Central, Mountain, and Pacific time zones. The Union and Central Pacific were the first railroads to connect the country The Government gave free land and money to railroad companies.

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  1. CRQ Answers • Most railroads were located in the Northeast and Midwest. • The railroad created the Eastern, Central, Mountain, and Pacific time zones. • The Union and Central Pacific were the first railroads to connect the country • The Government gave free land and money to railroad companies.

  2. Transcontinental Railroad • What? A railroad connecting an entire continent. (Union Pacific-Central Pacific) • When? 1863-1869 • Where? Connect at Promontory Point, Utah • How? Built with Government land grants (1 mile track = 20 acres of free land & $20,000 dollars)

  3. Moved goods and communication East to West (telegraph) Boomtowns- Cities that grew overnight Created need for oil, steel, coal, and wood Creates new states (Utah, Colorado, Nevada) Pooling- Setting high prices and splitting profits Held more power than the government. Led to near extinction of the Buffalo for (skins & sport) Transcontinental Railroad Good or Bad?

  4. CRQ Answers • The subject of the map is Native American Reservations. • Reservations were located in Arizona, Montana, and South Dakota • A reservation is land set aside for Indians by the government. • Reservations were established by the government.

  5. Freedmen Plains Indians

  6. Plains Indians • Forced onto Reservations- Land set aside for Native Americans by the U.S. Government • Bureau of Indian Affairs- Gov’t agency that gave money, food, medicine, and education

  7. Assimilation- Forced change from one culture to another • Dawes Act- Gov’t law that tried to convert Indians to Farmers • Carlisle School- Penn. School that tried to make Natives “white” • Native rights found in treaties not amendments

  8. Assimilation

  9. CHIEF JOSEPH

  10. I am tired of fighting. Our chiefs are killed. Looking Glass is dead. The old men are all dead. It is cold, and we have no blankets. The little children are freezing to death. My people, some of them, have run away to the hills, and have no blankets, no food. No one knows where they are -- perhaps freezing to death. I want to have time to look for my children, and see how many of them I can find. Maybe I shall find them among the dead. Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands I will fight no more forever. Chief Joseph 1877

  11. People on the Plains1860-1890 • Miners • Ranchers • Homesteaders • African Americans

  12. Miners • Mined gold in Colorado and Nevada • Prospectors- People who look for quick riches on Gold and Silver • Comstock Load- Huge supply of Gold found in Nevada • Vigilantes- Citizens that established laws and rules

  13. Ranchers

  14. RANCHERS • Created a “Cattle Kingdom” on the plains • Drove “Mavericks” Roaming cattle on the Plains • Lost lands due to settlers and barbed wire

  15. Homesteaders • Homestead Act- 160 acres of “free” land if you farmed it for 5 years. • Built homes made of Sod and Roots (Sodbusters) • First females to vote in America (Wyoming)

  16. “sooners”

  17. African Americans

  18. Exodusters- African Americans who moved to Kansas • Buffalo Soldiers- African Americans who became ranchers in the West

  19. Plains Farmers (late 1800s)

  20. Faced high railroad & grain storage rates Too much land to farm (160-250 acres) Crop failure due to winter/drought Asked the government to control rates (failed) Machines: Tractor and Combine (heavy loans) Russian Wheat survived plains weather Problems Solutions

  21. Steam Tractor 1st Combine

  22. Overproduction of crops = low crop prices Little to No voice in government Farmers Alliance- group of farmers who split costs of farming (1870s) 5. Populist Party- “people’s party” political party that represented Farmers and Industry Workers More Problems More Solutions

  23. Populist Party Beliefs • Farmers and workers should unite • The government should control the railroad, telegraph, and telephone industries • The government should help workers • Taxes should not be high for the workers • Land should be owned by Americans

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