Consider: What have we seen or heard about the “Wild West?” The West after the Civil War (1860-1896)

consider:

What have we seen or heard about the “Wild West?”

The West after the Civil War

(1860-1896)

essential question:

What caused migration to the West after the Civil War?

PART 1: TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD trans = across

continental = continent (i.e. North America)

Instructions: Read the questions first. Then, read the selection and/or watch the video about the transcontinental railroad. Finally, answer the questions.

1. What is the transcontinental railroad?2. The purpose of technology such as railroads is to

make life easier. How did the transcontinental railroad make life easier?

3. What problems and dangers were faced in creating the transcontinental railroad?

4. Where were immigrants from that worked on the transcontinental railroad?

5. What was the significance of the golden spike at Promontory Summit, also known as Promontory Point, Utah?

6. What were some effects of the transcontinental railroad on the country?

(begin at 10:15; 37:30-44:55 to end)

1. What is the transcontinental railroad?

2. The purpose of technology such as railroads is to make life easier. How did the transcontinental railroad make life easier?

Central Pacific Union Pacific

3. What problems and dangers were faced in creating the transcontinental railroad?

4. Where were immigrants from that worked on the transcontinental railroad?

many Chinese worked on the Central Pacific; many Irish and German on the Union Pacific

5. What was the significance of the golden spike at Promontory Summit, also known as Promontory Point, Utah?

6. What were some effects of the transcontinental railroad on the country?

connecting the east and west

6. What were some effects of the transcontinental railroad on the country?

more settlers = less buffalo and displacement of Native Americans

6. What were some effects of the transcontinental railroad on the country?

more settlers = less buffalo and displacement of Native

Americans

6. What were some effects of the transcontinental railroad on the country?

four standard time zones and new terms

A lot of the hardships that the transcontinental railroad workers faced involved the physical environment. The environment will play a very large role in the changing west, so we need to answer the essential question…

REVIEW: What were the landscape and people like in the

West like before the Civil War?

Label the following on the map (see pages 1010-11 in the back of the textbook):

Mississippi River Rocky Mountains Great Plains

What was the status of

American Indians when we last

discussed them? (i.e. Where were they? What were

they doing?)

Red Cloud, Oglala Lakota chief in the 1880s. In the 1860s, he led the Sioux to military victory over the United States,

forcing the government, in the Treaty of Fort Laramie, to abandon army

posts and withdraw from Sioux territory.

• no land ownership (just use); nomadic

The Plains Indians

• buffalo played central role in lives

• had traded for horses and some guns

essential question:What caused migration to the West

after the Civil War?PART 2: PUSH AND PULL FACTORS

• Push factors are what push you out of the place you are (i.e. no jobs available where you are)

• Pull factors are what pull you to where you move (i.e. lots of jobs available in the new location)

• Homestead Act• cheap, “available” land for farming or ranching• gold being discovered• expensive, overcrowded land in the east• discrimination of blacks in the east• Morrill Land Grant Act of 1862• new inventions that made farming possible on

the Great Plains• new railroads built in the American West• government disregard for Native American land

Which would be push factors and which would be pull factors? Write them in the proper location. Define the Homestead Act and the Morrill Land Grant Act of 1862. You can find these by looking in the index.

consider:How will the settler’s movement West affect Native Americans?

The “Indian Problem”• the government in the east’s term for

Indians being in the way of settlers continuing to move west

• government policy evolves from extermination to reservations

consider:

Fight or flight is how animals respond to conflict. As humans, what other

choice do we have?

essential question:

How did U.S. citizens’ migration West change the lives of Native Americans? Fighting the Plains Indians would be the last of the U.S. government’s wars against Native Americans. This would change the Native Americans’ lives forever.

Make sure you understand these terms—

reservation: land set aside for Native Americans

Make sure you understand these terms—

assimilation: making a minority culture like the dominant culture

Top: A group of Chiricahua Apache students on their first day at Carlisle Indian School in Carlisle, Pa.

Bottom: The same students four months later.

Make sure you understand these terms—

assimilation: making a minority culture like the dominant culture Tom Torlino, a Carlisle School student, before

and after spending time at a Denver school.

Add a note to the chart from the Photo Stories and consider whether the event represents Native Americans fighting, fleeing, or coming to an

agreement. An agreement may include a forced agreement, such as moving to a reservation.

the Sand Creek Massacre

the Battle of Little Big Horn(also known as Custer’s Last Stand)

vs.

Chief Joseph of the Nez Percé

Helen Hunt Jackson’s A Century of Dishonor

the Dawes Severalty Act

the Ghost Dance

Wounded Knee

Chief Big Foot lies dead in the snow, among the first to

die on December 29, 1890.

Native Americans participate in the 100th memorial ride to Wounded Knee.

Jimmy Smith, and Loretta Store stand in front of their dilapidated wooded shack that sits in a small

canyon east of Tuba Cit Ariz.

1. How did U.S. citizens’ migration West change the lives of Native Americans?

2. Is there anything that the Plains Indians could have done to keep their land and way of life?

The Hot Seat• one person volunteers

to be in the hot seat

• He or she answers a series of multiple choice questions

• 1 question right = sense of self-satisfaction• 2 questions right = fist bump• 3 questions right = gum• 4 questions right = prize box• You have two opportunities to “poll the class”

where you can see how the class answered

consider:

What would life be like without police?

How would this idea lead to people being fascinated with the west?

essential question:

How was the fantasy of the “Wild West” compare to the

reality of the American West?

Fill out the left side of the chart about the portrayal of the Wild West as seen. After each

clip, we will discuss the reality of the West.gunfight scene from

My Name is Still Trinity

beginning of Enter the Lone Ranger

bar scene from Hang ‘em High

final showdown in The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

preview of Red Dead Redemption

scene from Blazing Saddles

scene from The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

scene from Wild Wild West

If you drew a picture of the West before the Civil War, what would you include?

If you drew a picture of the West after the Civil War, what would you include?

consider:

essential question:

How did settlers change the West?

Read the chart from left to right, filling out the right column for each theme using the textbook. Overall, notice how the American West will look increasingly

like the East, with cities and big businesses.

social change

The Old West

One Methodist missionary expressed his horror of early mining town saloons

and their patrons: “The utter recklessness, the perfect ‘Abandon’

with which they drink, gamble, and swear is altogether astounding.” By the

1890s, when a photographer took this carefully posed picture of Crapper

Jack’s Saloon in Cripple Creek, Colorado, saloon society was still

popular but seemed more restrained.

social change

The New WestProspective settlers crowd the U.S. Land Office in Garden City, Kansas, in 1885. The rush of people into the West from throughout the world contributed to the diversity of the region’s population.

economic change1. miningGold miners with sluice, c. 1850: At first, gold miners worked individually, each with a shovel and pan. By the 1850s devices like the one shown here, a "long tom," were making mining a cooperative venture. Miners shoveled clay, dirt, and stone into a long and narrow box, hosed in water at one end, stirred the mixture, and waited for the finer gravel, which might include gold, to fall through small holes and lodge under the box.

economic change1. mining Chinese

miners in Idaho

operate the destructive

water cannons

used in hydraulic

mining.

economic change2. cattle

ranching

economic change2. cattle

ranching

economic change3. farming

economic change3. farming

Economic integration of the West promoted regional agricultural specialization. Stockraising and grain production dominated the more sparsely settled West, while the South grew the labor-intensive crops of cotton, tobacco, and sugar cane, and other areas concentrated on dairy products, fruit, and other crops for nearby urban markets.

technology change

physical environment change

• You borrowed a lot of money to start your business.

• The price of what you sell is low and getting lower.

• The only company that can ship your product is charging high prices.

• The government is taking money out of circulation, meaning money is harder to get

consider:The American economy occasionally suffers as it is now. What action might you take if

faced with the problems below?

When taking notes, it is important to write more than the basic points

that are given. As you take notes today, add an extra note to each

bulleted point.

essential question:

How did the Populist Movement of the late 1800s emerge and eventually

go away? PART 1: FARMERS ORGANIZE

Problems that farmers were facing:

• natural disasters in the Plains

• large debt

but…

• low crop prices

• railroads charging high prices (rebates for large customers, not farmers)

• government was taking greenbacks (paper money) out of circulation; making money harder to get U.S.

government

Why government did not help:• more concerned with helping big business

in the east

Farmers begin to organize in protest:• The Grange, or Patrons of Husbandry, was

the first major farmers’ group

• Farmers’ Alliances were similar groups that included the Southern Alliance and the Colored National Farmers’ Alliance

Mary Lease famously told farmers to “raise less corn and more hell!”

Many who feel oppressed feel the need to express themselves. In our society today, the frustrations of the urban community has inspired

many rap lyrics. Put together some rap lyrics to express the frustration of the farmers during the late 1800s. Be sure to include the problem and what efforts there are to solve them in at least four lines. Include at least one of the following, underlined: a problem that farmers faced from the list; The Grange (or Patrons of Husbandry); Farmers’ Alliance; Southern Alliance; Colored National Farmers’ Alliance

Example:Flood just took away my

home on the range;Gov’ment won’t help so I

joined the Grange.

essential question:

How did the Populist Movement of the late 1800s emerge and eventually go away? PART 2: POPULIST PARTY BEGINS

AND ENDS

• Interstate Commerce Act was the government did too little, too late (this act said RR rates had to be “reasonable and

just”)

• upset farmers form the Populist party in 1892

• The Omaha Platform spelled out the goals of the Populists, including increasing the money supply through “free silver”

Gold Standard vs.

Bimetallism

• “Gold Bugs”• Silverites

The end of the Populist Party

Use the video* to answer the questions on

your worksheet.

from the magazine Judge, July 1896

*start video at 3:50

Write a new verse for your angry farmer rap lyrics that addresses Populism. Include at least two of the terms listed below, underlined, in at least four

lines of verse.• Interstate Commerce Act (or Interstate Commerce

Commission)• Populist party• Omaha Platform• gold standard• gold bug• silverite• bimetallism• election of 1896• William Jennings Bryan• Cross of Gold