1. ESWBAT: Determine how 3 changes in the west expanded the U.S.
Do Now: What is this photo
representing?
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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?

2. 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

3. STEP 1

4. Step 2

5. Step 3

6. Step 4

7. Step 5

8. 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

9. Step 6

10. Step 7

11. Step 8

12. Step 9

13. Step 10

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

15. 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.

16. 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.

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

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

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

20. 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.

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

22. Another View

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

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

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

26. Completion – 1869 The Golden Spike

27. Completion

28. Railroads in the US 1900

29. 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

30. BUFFALO KILLED FOR SPORT & FUN

31. BUFFALO KILLED FOR THEIR HIDES & FUR

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

33. 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.

34. NATIVE AMERICANS WERE FORCED TO BECOME MORE “CIVILIZED”

35. 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!

36. 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.

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

38. 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”

39. Gold Standard
Step 1 – Find Gold

40. Gold Standard
Step 2 – Bring it to the mint

41. Gold Standard
Step 3 – Leave with your money

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

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

45. 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

46. 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

47. SECTIONALISM

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