The Gilded Age

Gilded

Age

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People moving out west to seek new opportunities in the Great Plains.

Westward Expansion

People moving to America for new economic opportunities in areas like New York City.

​​Immigration

​People work in factories, and factory owners use capitalism to profit.

Industrialization

Westward Expansion

The railroad contributed to the closing of the western frontier in two ways:

1. Greater ease of travel

2. Higher demand for unclaimed territory

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​The Transcontinental Railroad

• The Transcontinental Railroad was built after the Civil War.

• Railroads moved people and goods and moved east to west.

• Population grew from 1850 to 1900 from 23 million to 76 million

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​Growth of Railroads

Multiple Choice

Which statement describes how the Transcontinental Railroad affected the United States during the late 1800s?

• The railroad contributed to the rapid settlement and growth of towns in the West

• The railroad caused a rapid decline in agriculture and mining in the West

• The railroad contributed to population growth and increased sharecropping in the East

• The railroad prompted Congress to buy land and create national parks in the East

• Chinese immigrants worked on the railroads.

• People were worried that the Chinese immigrants were taking jobs away from Americans.

• Law is passed that limits Chinese immigration.

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Chinese Exclusion Act

The beginnings of the cattle industry was based on the need to process large amounts of cattle and it made meat packing a major industry.

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The Cattle Industry

• As people moved west, they began to build barbed-wire fences to keep out outsiders.

• This impacted the meat industry, because the cattle no longer had free access to grass. Many cattle died as a result.

Closing of the Frontier

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What statement best completes the list below?

Title: U.S. Cattle Industry in the Nineteenth Century

1. Wild cattle multiplied for centuries in the Southwest

2. Growing cities created more demand for beef

3. Cowboys rounded up cattle and drive them to shipping centers on railroad lines

4. The introduction of barbed wire and windmills led to large fenced ranches

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Meatpacking becomes a major industry

Congress passed legislation tariffing beef

The cowboys on drives were European

The cattle industry was nationalized

The primary objective of the Dawes Act was to promote cultural assimilation of Native Americans

They wanted Native Americans to speak English and Americanize them

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​The Dawes Act

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The images show a group of Chiricahua Apache students on their first day of school at the Carlisle Indian School and the same students four months later, 1886-1887.

These photographs provide evidence that one goal of the Carlisle Indian School was to ​

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• The Homestead Act provided free/cheap land to settlers. However, once people got out west they realized that access to timber was limited (there was no wood)

• ​People had to start building their house out of sod

• The main reason for rapid settlement of the Great Plains was Congress allowing homesteading

Homestead Act

Hotspot

Select the area where people settled MOST under the Homestead Act.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following was the main reason for the rapid settlement of the Great Plains during the late 1800s?

• Congress passed a law requiring all public lands to be sold at auction

• Congress passed a law allowing people to claim public land and convert it to private property through homesteading

• Speculators bought large parcels of land and then built factory towns to attract new immigrants

• Native Americans sold most of their tribal lands directly to railroad companies

Immigration