1. Settlement of the west
US History

2. Railroad Expansion Railroads 1860 Railroads 1870 Railroads 1880

3. Causes of Railroad Expansion
Desire for Profit
Demand for Transportation
Govt. Policy
Homestead Act
Pacific Railway Act (Land Grants)
Military Needs, Mail
Labor
Capital

4. Settlement of the West

5. Results of Railroad Growth
Domestic/International Market
Jobs – RR & Building Materials
New Technology
Immigration
Indian Wars
Millionaires

6. DBQ Paragraph – Westward Migration

7. Federal Actions and Impact
Event
What Happened?
Impact on Plains Indians
Extermination of Buffalo
Indian Wars
Dawes Act
Carlisle School

8. Theme: Settlement of the Great Plains
Describe the historical circumstances that led to United States settlement the Great Plains
Discuss the impact of settlement of the Great Plains on the Native Americans

9. Timeline of Chinese Immigration
1848 Gold discovered at Sutter's Mill, California; many Chinese arrive to mine for gold.
1850 Foreign Miners’ tax mainly targets Chinese and Mexican miners.
1852 Approximately 25,000 Chinese in America.
1854 Court rules that Chinese cannot give testimony in court.
1865 Central Pacific Railroad recruits Chinese workers; ultimately employs about 15,000 Chinese workers.
1869 First transcontinental railroad completed.
1871 Los Angeles: anti-Chinese violence; 18 Chinese killed.
1873 Panic of 1873; start of major economic downturn that last through the decade.
1877 Chico, CA: anti-Chinese violence.
1878 Court rules Chinese ineligible for naturalized citizenship.
1880 Approximately 106,000 Chinese in America; California passes anti-miscegenation law (no interracial marriage).
1882 Chinese Exclusion Act: prohibits Chinese immigration (in one year, Chinese immigration drops from 40,000 to 23).

10. Why did many Americans support the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Source
Based on this document, why did many white Americans support the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Doc A
Play
Doc B
Cartoon
Doc C
Speech
Doc D
Autobiography

11. Why did Congress pass the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882?
TEA
Why did Congress pass the
Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882?
Use at least 3 documents
Remember to reference source
Remember to go beyond summarizing a document, use it to make a point

12. Question
How did the terms of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo compare with the actual treatment of Mexican Americans in the American Southwest?
Terms of Treaty
Treatment

13. Buffalo Extermination

14. Buffalo Extermination

15. Indian Wars Why War? Homestead Act (1862) Pacific Railway Act (1862)
Reservations
War
Sioux Wars
Little Big Horn (1876)
Wounded Knee (1890)
Outcomes?

16. Sioux Wars / Results

17. Dawes Act
Divided up tribal lands to assimilate or “Americanize” the Indians
Native Americans would live on private property and farm as a path towards citizenship

18. Carlisle Indian School
Attempted to “Americanize” Native Americans
“kill the Indian, save the man”
Acculturation/Assimilation – adopting cultural traits or social patterns of another group

19. Pacific Railway Act

20. Land Grants

21. Homestead Act

22. 1861

23. 1870

24. 1880

25. 1900