ESWBAT: Determine how 3 changes in the west expanded the U.S. Do Now: What is this photo representing? CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.6-8.2  CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.6-8.4 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.6-8.7 Essential Questions : How did the boom in gold and silver change the West? What problems arose on the mining frontier? How did railroads help the West develop? How did the expansion of the west affect the life of Native Americans?

Boomtown to Ghost Town Step 1 Gold or Silver Strike Step 2 Tent cities are created Step 3 Merchants arrive to supply miners Step 4 Wood-frame structures replace tents Step 5 BOOMTOWN

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Boomtown to Ghost Town Step 6 Step 7 Step 8 Step 9 Step 10 Gold or silver production falls Step 7 Miners move on Step 8 Stores close and merchants leave Step 9 Town is abandoned Step 10 GHOST TOWN

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HOMESTEAD ACT: US gov’t encouraged people to settle the West by offering free land if they farmed it for 5 years.

The Transcontinental Railroad Railroads had already transformed life in the East, but at the end of the Civil War railroad tracks still stopped at the Missouri River. For a quarter of a century, men had dreamed of building a line from coast to coast. Now they would attempt to lay 1,775 miles of track from Omaha to Sacramento.

Railroads Western territories needed a faster way to transport goods (supplies) from the east. Miners needed a faster way to transport gold and silver from the west. Cheap and fast mode of transportation.

Transcontinental Railroad 1863 Two companies began a race to build the first transcontinental railroad. Union Pacific and Central Pacific Trans means “cross”

The Transcontinental Railroad Theodore Judah discovered a route for the railroad through the Sierra mountains. He and Doc Strong formed the Central Pacific Railroad.

The Transcontinental Railroad . The Central Pacific Railroad made these four investors some of the wealthiest men in America. Stanford Huntington Hopkins Crocker

The Transcontinental Railroad In 1862, Congress loaned money (SUBSIDESED) the construction of the RR. the Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads $16,000 per mile of level track and $48,000 per mile of mountain track. Congress also promised each company 6,400 acres of federal land for every mile of track it laid.

Transcontinental Railroad Promontory Point, Utah Omaha, Nebraska Sacramento, California

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How was it built? Immigrant Labor Chinese, Mexican and Irish workers were forced to built at low pay and in tough conditions.

Central Pacific workers laying rail at the end of track, Humboldt Plains, Nevada.

Mormon workers digging the Union Pacific's Deep Cut through Weber Canyon, Utah, autumn, 1868.

Completion – 1869 The Golden Spike

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Railroads in the US 1900

FOOD CLOTHING SHELTER WEAPONS & TOOLS INDIAN HUNT PLAINS INDIANS ENTIRE WAY OF LIFE REVOLVED AROUND THE BUFFALO FOOD CLOTHING SHELTER WEAPONS & TOOLS TEPEES- MADE FROM BUFFALO HIDE

BUFFALO KILLED FOR SPORT & FUN

BUFFALO KILLED FOR THEIR HIDES & FUR

NATIVE AMERICANS WERE REMOVED FROM THEIR ANCESTRAL LANDS & FORCED TO LIVE ON RESERVATIONS

Native American men and women of the Shoshone tribe pose near tepees in Wyoming Territory. Chief Washakie stands with a wooden shaft and a saw, to the left of the photo. Next to him is a white man wearing a bowler hat.

NATIVE AMERICANS WERE FORCED TO BECOME MORE “CIVILIZED”

GENOCIDE THE DESTRUCTION OF THE INDIANS WAY OF LIFE BY: KILLING THEM, KILLING THE BUFFALO, DESTROYING THEIR WAY OF LIFE, FORCING CULTURE CHANGE, MOVING THEM ONTO RESERVATIONS, ENDED THEIR WAY OF LIFE FOREVER!

RESULTS OF MANIFEST DESTINY The expansion of the USA was a great event in our nation’s history, but it led to the genocide & destruction of the Native American culture & way of life. As the population grew in the West, new territories wished to become states & be added to the Union. Manifest Destiny & westward expansion bitterly divided our country into North & South over the slavery issue. As the country spread west, so did the debate of whether slavery should spread west also.

Topic: The New West Aim: How did the Populist Party represent the common person?

Populist Party 1892 Farmers and labor unions joined together to form the Populist Party Five major goals Raise prices of farm products Regulate the cost of railroads Create an 8 hour work day (1/3,1/3,1/3) Limit immigration “FREE SILVER”

Gold Standard Step 1 – Find Gold

Gold Standard Step 2 – Bring it to the mint

Gold Standard Step 3 – Leave with your money

Silver Standard Government said “no” Felt too much silver in the economy would cause inflation What makes something valuable????

Presidential Election of 1896 William Jennings Bryan (Populist) The Great Commoner William McKinley (Republican)

William Jennings Bryan Ran for president in 1896, 1900, 1908 President Woodrow Wilson’s Secretary of State Critic of banks and railroads Led “Free Silver” movement Peace advocate Prohibitionist Opponent of Social Darwinism (Scopes Trial attorney 1925) Anti-imperialist Anti-monopoly Born 1860 in Illinois

William McKinley Last veteran of the American Civil War to be president Upheld the Gold Standard President during the Spanish-American War Pro-imperialist 3rd president to be assassinated Born 1843 in Ohio

SECTIONALISM

Answer your AIM Aim: How did the Populist Party represent the common person?