1. The Completion of Manifest Destiny

2. Transforming the West
After the Civil War the country again looked west
To whom and why would the west appeal to many Americans at this point in history?

3. Industry Requires Raw Materials
Industry needs ore – no longer is gold and silver the only things to mine
New mining technology – water mining
Very bad on the environment
Needed to get the ore east to the plants
The financial motive to build a Transcontinental Railroad

4. 1st Transcontinental Railroad
Built between
Changed the coast to coast trip from Months to weeks
This would unite America.

6. AMC – TV show about the Transcontinental Railroad

7. How does this picture represent this age in the middle United States?

8. The cowboy and Farmers of the west
Larger urban populations east required more food
The Cowboy moved the cattle to the trains and cowtowns
Open range – there were no fences (branded cattle)

9. Homestead Act of 1862
Unrestricted settlement on public lands to settlers
Requiring only residence, cultivation, and some improvement
Any person who was head of a family or was age 21, a U.S. citizen was eligible.
160 acre plots

10. Sodbusters
The settlers that moved to the mid-west often lived in homes like this.
What is this house made of?

11. Frontier living

12. Rain follows the plow Railroads also encouraged farming in the west
Rain follows the plow – belief the if you plowed the soil in an arid region rain would follow (Watch Out!!!!!!)
High demand for grain back east
Farmers bring an end to the cowboy
Barbed wire – end of the open range

13. Questions Why would the government give away free land?
Besides the US government who else has a great deal of land that it could sell cheap and still make a lot of money?
What is a sooner?

14. The Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889
     The Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889 started at high noon on April 22, 1889, with an estimated 50,000 people lined up for their piece of the available two million acres.  The Unassigned Lands were considered some of the best unoccupied public land in the United States

15. Competition, Conflict & Change
Miners hurt the farmers land and water
Sheep hurt the grazing land for cattle
Cows and sheep ate farmers crops
Farmers fenced in open range which hurt cattle men
Farmers rerouted water that would be used in mining
Mining water contamination hurt livestock
Cattle men rerouted water that would hurt others down stream.
Many people would be killed over these issues

16. Transcontinental RR Questions
What did the continental railroad signify?
By the end of the Civil War where did the railroads end? 
How does the government decide on how much to pay the companies building the railroads? 
Besides money how else are the RR companies paid? 
Did the RR companies use honest practices while building the RR? Explain
Why did the US Govt. allow these practices
What was the east to west RR company?
Where did everything the plains Indians have come from? 
How many Buffalo were on the plains before the railroads came to the Great Plains? 
How would the mass hunting of the Buffalo be the beginning of the end for the last free Native Americans? 
Who ended up being the labor force for the west to east RR company (Central Pacific)
What was the great obstacle for the Central Pacific?