Westward Expansion

Westward Expansion

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What is the picture trying to say?

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What is the Light side?

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What is the Darkness?

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What is Manifest Destiny?

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What was the "American Frontier?"

American Frontier

• The "Frontier" was any land not used or claimed by farmers yet.

• The Great Plains were a part of the frontier and they had huge economic potential IF they could be settled.

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What was the economic potential that the Great Plains possessed?

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What or who was seen as an obstacle by the farmers in settling the Great Plains

Native Americans

• As we expanded West, native tribes were removed from their land and moved to new areas.

• American Soldier were often sent in to remove the native populations by force.

• The Daws Act was passed in 1887 to try an assimilate the Native population into American culture.

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Select Everything you think the Daws Act did for Native Americans

• Assimilated the Natives into American Society

• Gave each Native Family 160 acres of land

• Gave them Us citizenship ONLY if they accepted the terms

• Took away their tribal lands

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What year was the Daws act passed?

• 1987

• 1787

• 1887

• 2007

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Was the Daws Act Successful?

• YES!

• No...

Why did the Daws Act FAIL!!!?

• Native Americans were not given "Good Land"

• They did not know how to farm

• They did not know how to raise livestock

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What was the Homestead Act?

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What helped farmers move out west to settle and end the frontier?

Cattle Industry

• Demand for beef increased on the east coast

• Ranchers used the open land of the frontier to raise more and more and MORE cattle.

• "Cowboys" would take the cattle from the ranch to the train stations in the North Plains.

• Trains would take the cattle to the meat packing plants.

Farming the Great Plains

• Cultivating the Great Plains was difficult

• The Soil was poor

• Not enough rainfall

• Insects infested the and killed the crops

• Cattle would graze on their crops, causing farmers to use barbed wire to protect their land.

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What was almost hunted to extinction during the Gilded Age on the Great Plains?

• Eagles

• Bison

• Boar

• Bears