The South and West Transformed Chapter 3, Section 3
New South Mixed economy Started to develop manufacturing Alabama steel producing Did not grow as fast as the North Had to borrow from the North What were some other problems the South encountered?
Difficult Times Attack of the Boll Weevil Sharecropping – landowners controlled crops and homes South stripped African Americans of Rights
The Sharecropping System CHART Chart: The Sharecropping System
Clashes with American Indians Indian Removal Act – move to Oklahoma Stay… be killed Settlers decimated buffalo herds Native Resistance 39 Dakota Tribe hanged Custer’s Last Stand Surrender of Chief Joseph
Assimilation Become part of the main culture Dawes Act: divide reservations to force assimilation The West Transcontinental Railroad Granted 200 million acres of land Open Range – gov. owned grassland Ship steer via train
Assignment P. 83 #1 and 2 P. 86 #1 and 4