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Chapter 17: The West Transformed
Workbook & Notes
1. The Comstock Lode
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2. Boomtowns
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3. Vigilantes
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4. Transcontinental Railroad
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5. Fort Laramie Treaty
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6. 2nd Fort Laramie Treaty
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7. Sand Creek Massacre
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8. Buffalo Soldiers
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9. Sitting Bull
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10. Crazy Horse
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11. Colonel Custer
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12. Little Bighorn
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13. Chief Joseph
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14. “The Long Walk”
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15. The Dawes Act
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16. Chisholm Trail
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17. Goodnight-Loving Trail
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18. Vaquero
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19. William “Buffalo Bill” Cody
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20. Cow Town
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21. Cattle Kingdom
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22. Homesteaders
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23. Homestead Act
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24. Sodbusters
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25. Exodusters
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26. Ricos
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27. Granges
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28. Populist
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29. William Jennings Bryan
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Mining and Railroads
The Comstock Lode
ó Discovered in Nevada in 1859.
ó Importance: one of the richest______.
ó Comstock Lode made produced ______and made Nevada the center for ______.
The Boom Spreads
ó Few prospectors became rich because______
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ó By the 1880’s, western mining had become ______.
Life in Mining Towns
ó Tent cities arose around mining camps and became boomtowns or towns with mines.
ó Nearly half of all miners were ______.
o List where miners were from:______.
ó Laws restricted ______.
ó Because mining towns grew so quickly, it was hard to find ______and ______.
Miners formed groups of ______, who ______and ______.
ó As towns grew, local residents look for more lasting forms of ______.
ó In some towns, all of the silver ore was soon extracted, and mines ______, miners ______, businesses ______, and merchants ______.
ó Boomtowns became ______.
The Railroad Boom
Aid to Rail Roads
ó To encougage the growth of railroads, the ______offered railroads ______, which are ______.
ó Railroads also received ______.
The Transcontinental Railroad
ó A transcontintental railroad is ______.
ó In ______, the ______Railroad owned by Leland Stanford won the right to build a line eastward from ______. The ______Railroad would build west from ______.
ó The railroads hired thousands of workers, including 10,000 ______.
ó On May 10th, ______, the two lines met in ______, ______.
Effects of the Railroad
ó ______sprang up in the West & population ______.
ó Statehood: Nevada _____, Colorado _____, N. Dakota, S. Dakota, Montana, & Washington ____,
Idaho & Wyoming _____.
Positives
/ Negatives
Native Americans Struggle to Survive
What are the meanings of the following words:
Policy Towards Native Americans Through Time
1851-1867 / This policy was started by: The Fort Laramie Treaty
How it affected the Native Americans:
Read pages 585-586 and give examples of why and how this policy did not work
Reservations
1868-1886 / This policy was started by: The 2nd Fort Laramie Treaty
How it affected the Native Americans:
Read pages 586-588 and give examples of why and how this policy did not work
Assimilation
1887-Present / This policy was started by: The Dawes Act
How it affected the Native Americans:
Read page 559 and give examples of why and how this policy did not work
The Cattle Kingdom
The Rise of the Cattle Industry
ó For years wild cattle called ______wandered the ______or ______land of Texas.
ó Cattle: Where did it come from? ______.
Why wasn’t it herded? ______.
ó ______in the 1860’s made it easier to transport meat to the East, ______, and ______in the West.
ó Cowhands move cattle to rail lines in ______, ______, and ______.
ó ______was the best time to begin a ______which could take two or three months. The most famous trail in the East was ______and in the West was the ______.
Life on the Trail
ó Herding cattle was a risky job including stampedes, fighting grass fires, ______, and ______.
ó After 18 hours, a cowhand could earn less than ______per day!
ó Cowhands heading north owe much to ______who taught them to wear spurs & chaps. They learned how to ______, ______, and ______.
ó At least 1/3 of cowboys were Mexican and the rest were ______or ______.
The Wild West
ó After months on the trail, cowboys needed places to rest. ______, Kansas was the first ______. These towns like ______and ______, Kansas had dance halls, saloons, and hotels.
ó Myths spread about the West as a place of ______, ______, and ______.
ó In 1883 ______created a traveling Wild West show with gun-slinging cowboys and Native Americans. They staged performances including ______.
Boom and Bust in Cattle Kingdom (1860’s-1880’s)
ó The region dominated by the cattle industry and its ______, ______, and ______was called the Cattle Kingdom.
ó Profits rose with new ______that caught fewer ______and more meat than longhorns. Businesses in the East and in ______invested in the cattle industry.
ó How did the following cause the “bust” of the Cattle Kingdom?
o Land: ______.
o Weather: ______.
o Competition: ______.
o Farmers: ______.
o Railroads: ______.
What caused the Boom and Bust in the cattle industry?
Farming in the West
Homesteading
ó The ______of 1863 motivated many to move west because it offered ______to anyone who lived on the land for 5 years.
ó Thousands became ______receiving free land from the government on the Great Plains. Dry conditions made it hard to ______for profit.
ó Farms meant ______for railroads who began giving away ______of land to people from ______, ______, ______, and ______.
A Hard Life on the Plains
ó Land further west was dry, but the soil of the Plains was fertile and covered with ______. Bricks were made once the material was hardened to build homes, which were cool in the summer and warm in the winter.
ó In 1877, ______created the steel plow. ______ask they were known used drills to bury seeds, ______to harvest crops, and ______to beat the grain.
ó Farmers also used ______to pump water.
How was life difficult for farmers in the West?9