1. The West and Farming

2. Sand Creek Massacre Colorado (1864) 400 Indians killed in cold bold
torture

3. Fetterman Massacre Indian response to Sand Creek 1866
81 soldiers and civilians in Wyoming by Sioux warriors

4. Gold!!!!! Found in Great Sioux Reservation
Led to Custer’s Last Stand (fight with Sitting Bull) - Little Bighorn in 1876

5. Chief Joseph 1877 Tried to flee with his Nez Perce tribe
After 1700 miles they finally gave up and were forced onto reservation

6. Geranimo Apache leader Led many successful campaigns against whites
Forced to settle and farm in Oklahoma

7. Plight of the Indians
Reservations, loss of lifestyles and loss of food source (buffalo)
Helen Hunt Jackson
Forced Assimilation
Battle of Wounded Knee
Government killed over 200 men, women and children because they were participating in the Ghost Dance “cult”

8. Dawes Severalty Act 1887 Forced assimilation
Dissolved many tribes, wiped out tribal ownership of land
Led to Indians losing 50% of their land

9. Western Life

10. Mining
59’ers and the Comstock Lode
Boomtowns
Big Business in mining

11. Farming Beef Business Farming Transcontinental railroad Long drive
Homestead Act of 1862
Sodbusters
“Great American Desert” blooms

12. Farming Business Debtors Populism Coxey’s Army and Pullman’s strike
“The issue is socialism versus capitalism. I am
For socialism because I am for humanity.”
-Eugene Debs

13. Golden McKinley and Silver Bryan
1896 Election
McKinley
Republican
Big business and wanted gold standard
Bryan
Democrat
“Cross of Gold”speech advocating silver
Split in party
And the winner is…
Big Business!!!! (McKinley)