Please hand in DBQs (put your name on all three

1. Scaffolding questions on top…

2. Outline in middle….

3. Essay on bottom

Recommendations for next year:

• Regular Economics OR • Honors Economics

• National Issues Forum OR • “SUPA”: Public Affairs- Syracuse University

Project Advance

Few items of business….

• Civil War test corrections…• Speak to me if interesting in higher level SS

classes next year…• Reconstruction Open Notebook quiz due

Friday…• Mid-term: Thursday and Friday of next week– Study? Look back over unit reviews and unit

summaries– regentsprep.org- look over q’s for topics 1- 3a

Unit 6- The “Gilded Age”1870- 1900ish

UNIT 6: The Gilded Age, 1870- 1900ish

• Settling the West• Growth of “Big Business”• Growth of organized labor• Immigration/ urbanization

Transcontinental Railroad• 1864 PACIFIC RAILWAY Act• $16,000- $48,000 granted to every mile of rail• Extensive LAND GRANTS of government property

were given to the companies for 10 miles on either side of the track

• TELEGRAPH lines were to be built alongside the route• May 10, 1869- two lines connect at PROMONTORYPOINT, UTAH

Encouraging settlers to move

to the Great Plains-

• 1862 HOMESTEAD Act• Any citizen (who had not born arms

against the US) could claim 160 acres of government land for a minimal filing fee

• Had to “improve” lot by building a dwelling and cultivating the land

• After 5 years, homesteaders owned the property, free and clear

Challenges of/ details about building the transcontinental railroad:

Effects of the transcontinental railroad: Challenges of/ details about the pioneers settling the Great Plains

        

 

   

Conflict with the “Plains Indians”

• The transcontinental railroad, arrival of homesteaders and killing of Buffalo destroys the lives of the Plains Indians

• The “Plains Wars”:– from 1860- 1890, series of conflicts between the U.S.

and Native Americans– 1890 Massacre at WOUNDED KNEE– final “battle” after almost 300 years of conflict between whites and Natives

Sites of Indian battles, 1860- 1890

The government tries to resolve the “Indian problem”

• In the late 1800s, Natives are placed on RESERVATIONS throughout the west

• 1887 DAWES Act– attempt to “assimilate” Natives by dissolving communal

reservations and forcing Natives to live on small family farms– reservations would be broken up, and Nativefamilies would get 160 acres of land. Left over land would be sold for profit to white settlers.– disastrous effect: Land owned by Indians decreased from 138 million acres in 1887 to 48 million acres in 1934

Reservations: lands set aside for Native Americans

• Impact of Dawes Act: Lose most of their remaining land in late 1800s

Who was responsible for the Battle of Little Bighorn?

Who was responsible for the Battle of Little Bighorn?

Cameron Report Kate Bighead Interview

30 years of conflict in West…

Sites of Indian battles, 1860- 1890

Positives and Negatives of “taming the west”?

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWRPBmmVOGU