Black, Engbersen, Okolski, Pantiru, 2010, A Continent Moving West
Moving West
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Moving WestMoving West
Angela BrownAngela Brown
Chapter 6 Chapter 6
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Bellringer:
What factors caused settlement in the west to increase? Explain.
Learning Targets:
1.Explain how settlers acquired land in the West.
2. Decribe how settlers worked with each other to overcome the hardships of the West.
3. Describe the experiences of women and African Americans in the West.
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Focus Question:Focus Question:
What economic and social factors changed the West after the Civil War?
Witness History: A Test of Courage
What might have been some of the “compensations” to which Fuhr refers?
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RailroadsRailroads
• Pacific Railway Acts of 1862 and 1864 gave Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroad 10 square miles of land on each side of the track for each mile of track laid.
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Morrill Land Grant Act of 1862Morrill Land Grant Act of 1862
• Provide support for state colleges
• Land given to state governments
• States sell to fund agriculture “land-grant” colleges
• .50 an acre to banks and land speculators
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• Land Speculators: people who bought up large areas of land in the hopes of selling later at a higher profit.
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Homestead Act of 1862Homestead Act of 1862
• signed by Lincoln in 1862• 160 acres to anyone who met the following
requirements…– 21 or head of a family– American citizen/immigrants filed for
citizenship– Ten-dollar registration fee– Build house/live there 6 months of the year– Farm land five consecutive years
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ChallengesChallenges
• Many did not meet requirements
• Needed about $1000 to be successful
• Tough sod, scarce water, climate
• Fraud (underhanded speculators)
• Little farm experience
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WaterWater
• Had to carry in buckets or use cisterns
• Often lead to “prairie fever” or typhoid
• Safer, dig wells underground
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Families Cooperated:Families Cooperated:
• Raising houses/barns• Sewing quilts• Husking corn
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African Americans:African Americans:
• Benjamin “pap” Singleton-head of exodus (50,000)
• Called themselves exodusters – (eludes to exodus from Egypt)
• In general treated better than in the south those with farming skills could make a living
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Women:Women:
• Could file for a homestead on their own
• Often alone- stayed to keep squatters away the men went to make money for the homestead
• Campaign to vote – (Wyoming 1st state to grant right to vote)
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Textbook Resources:Textbook Resources:
• Page 177 – Read Picturing the West
Answer Thinking Critically Questions:1.How do you think this artwork influenced the way
people perceived Native Americans and the West?
2.How do photographs or paintings of different parts of the world today influence the way we conceive of a place or a culture?
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Exit SlipExit Slip
1. How did railroads contribute to the settlement and growth of the West?
2. Why did farmers move to the Plains?
3. How did mining in the West change over time?
4. What were some of the causes of prejudice and discrimination in the West?
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