1. The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution
Period 6

3. Native American Clashes
The Plains Indians
Buffalo
Reservation system – 1850s
"Buffalo Soldier“
Sand Creek & Fetterman Massacre
Battle of Little Bighorn – 1876
Apache & Geronimo

4. The Government’s Response
A Century of Dishonor
Dawes Severalty Act
Battle of Wounded Knee
The “Ghost Dance”

5. New Industries in the West
Fifty-niners
Mining industry
Beef barons (KC & Chicago)
The Long Drive

6. The Sodbusters Homestead Act – 1862 Sodbusters Federal Irrigation
New Statehood
Colorado
N. Dakota
S. Dakota
Montana
Woming
Utah
“Sooner” State

7. The Great West Closing of the frontier National Parks - 1872
Yellowstone, Yosemite, Sequoia
Western Cities
Diversity & Difficulty

8. American Farmers Cash crops Mechanization of agriculture
Deflation – 1880s
Subservient to:
Weather, Govt, Agricultural trusts, railroads
No consolidation

9. The Populists The Grange – 1867 People’s Party (Populists)
Nationalization of RR
Graduated income tax
Unlimited coinage of silver
Coxeyites
Pullman Strike

10. Election of 1896 William McKinley (Rep) William Jennings Bryan (Dem)
Gold standard, Protective tariff
William Jennings Bryan (Dem)
“Cross of Gold,” inflation/free silver
Demo-Pop party
Fourth Party System
Gold Standard Act