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22 DAYS UNTIL THANKSGIVING BREAK  WELCOME BACK!! 22 DAYS UNTIL THANKSGIVING BREAK 

agenda Talk about our breaks! Hand back one million papers Talk about things Recap the West

PEOPLE WHO TRAVELED WEST Native Americans Ranchers Farmers Miners Homesteaders

NATIVE AMERICANS

NATIVE AMERICANS Dawes Act “Americanize” the Natives – promised them 160 acres But, most of it went to the white settlers Assimilation Trying to get Natives to blend into the white culture Battles They were sad and a lot of people died Wounded Knee, Sand Creek, Fort Laramie

RANCHERS

FARMERS AND RANCHERS Cattle becomes big business Vaqueros and cowboys Cattle trails and cattle drives Facilitated by… RAILROADS!!! Chisolm Trail Bonanza farms Giant, single-crop farms

HOMESTEADERS

HOMESTEADERS Homestead Act 160 acres Hardships: weather, bad harvests, low demand of crops, locusts, etc Exodusters

WHAT WERE PROBLEMS FACED BY FARMERS? Economic hardship Railroads charging too much All of this led to… Farmers’ Alliances Grange Populists – a new political party

WHAT WERE PROBLEMS? Corruption… which led to The Populist Movement Movement of the people, for the people, against big government and corruption Represented the common folk

What about the east? That’s what we will start tomorrow!

Extra time: work on your reading