1. Warm-up (9/29) West Test on Block Day
What is the main idea of this cartoon?
West Test on Block Day

2. Warm-up (9/30) West Test on Block Day What group formed the Populists?
Name a reform Populists called for.
Are Populists in favor or opposed to inflation?
West Test on Block Day

3. 7.1-Moving West

4. Moving West
Frederick Jackson Turner – claimed frontier had played a key role in forming the American character (he didn’t even mention the massacre of Native Americans or the giving away of land)
Rugged individualism, challenged, determined
Frontier closes

5. Moving West Government Incentives Morrill Land Grant Act
People wanted legal, private ownership of land
Homestead Act of 1862: sold land for a low price
Result: over 372,000 farms are created
Morrill Land Grant Act
Government distributed millions of acres to state governments
In return, the state had to build colleges/universities on the land
Ex.) Texas A&M and University of Texas

6. Diversity Spreads Settling in the East
Italians & Irish
Settling in the Midwest/Southwest
Germans & Scandinavians
Mexican – Mexican-Americans
Settling in the West
Chinese
African Americans
Exoduster: moved west to escape racial violence in the South – Nat Love

7. Populism Farmers Favor inflation
Opposed to tariffs
Favor inflation
Prices go up
Free-silver
Political Party – get government to act
8 hour work day
Graduated income tax
Free coinage of silver
Wm Jenning Bryan – 1896
Cross of Gold Speech