1. The South and West Transformed
Chapter 3, Section 3

2. 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?

3. Difficult Times Attack of the Boll Weevil
Sharecropping – landowners controlled crops and homes
South stripped African Americans of Rights

4. The Sharecropping System
CHART
Chart: The Sharecropping System

5. 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

6. 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

7. Assignment
P. 83 #1 and 2
P. 86 #1 and 4