1. 22 DAYS UNTIL THANKSGIVING BREAK 
WELCOME BACK!!
22 DAYS UNTIL THANKSGIVING BREAK 

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

3. PEOPLE WHO TRAVELED WEST
Native Americans
Ranchers
Farmers
Miners
Homesteaders

4. NATIVE AMERICANS

5. NATIVE AMERICANS Dawes Act
“Americanize” the Natives – promised them 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

6. RANCHERS

7. 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

8. HOMESTEADERS

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

10. 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

11. 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

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

13. Extra time: work on your reading