Weitere ähnliche Inhalte Ähnlich wie The old west (20) Mehr von Dave Phillips (20) Kürzlich hochgeladen (20) The old west6. 1. Miners
2. Railroad Companies
3. Cowboys & Ranchers
4. Native Americans
5. White farmers
6. Ethnic Minorities (Blacks,
Hispanics, & Asians)
9. Group: Miners
Key Events
– 1848: a series of
“big strikes” in
CA, NV, CO
• Key People
– ’49ers
– Civil War Vets
– Young men
– Some families
28. Group: Native Americans
• Key Events
– Chivington (aka Sand Creek)
Massacre: 200+ Natives killed
– Custer’s Last Stand: 200
Americans killed
– Battle of Wounded Knee: 300
Natives killed
• Key People
– Col Chivington
– Gen. Custer
– Sitting Bull
– Crazy Horse
31. Group: Native Americans
• Government Policies/ Legislation
– Reservation system
– Broken treaties
– Dawes Act- tried “Americanization”
35. The Battle of Little Big Horn
1876
Chief Sitting Bull
Gen. George
Armstrong
Custer
36. Chief Joseph I will fight no
more forever!
Nez Percé tribal
retreat (1877)
45. Group: Cowboys/Ranchers
• Key Events
– Corralling + Branding +
Long drive to railroads
– 1883- droughts
– 1887- blizzard
– 1880- barbed wire
ends the open range
54. Group: Farmers
• Government Policies/ Legislation
– Homestead Act of 1862: 160 acres of free land
– Morrill Act: Est. farm colleges
– Hatch Act: Funds farm research
NCSU Freshman
class 1889