My outlook on westward expansion movement

Manifest DestinyCotton Farms expanding (Cotton Gin) in the South, ranching,farming, as well as

mining in the mid-west and far west gold miningRailroads / Locomotives

SteamboatsTexas Independence

US Controls all land to the Pacific OceanHomestead Act

Westward Expansion

Lewis and Clark exploration

Manifest Destiny Overcrowding in the EastFertile and inexpensive

landLogging

Trapping/Fur-trading/Mining

Freedom for runaway slaves

California Gold Rush

Causes of development

Pony Express

150 years ago

Revolutionary idea to deliver mail from St. Joseph, Mo to California in only

10 days.

Lasted for only two years

Made no profit

Physical, social and economic influence on Western development

Expansion of land

Exploration, Settlement, Exploitation, Railroad, Pony- Express Socially Westward expansion caused destruction of native lands and people, led to war and killing thousands of Indians Economic Railroads, Mining, Wheat, Corn & Cotton Farming, Logging, Fur-trading

Telegraph

Made the pony express obsolete

Samuel Morse - gifted artist and inventor

1838 petitioned Washington to build an experimental telegraph line

Conflict

Euro-Americans wanted land for farming, ranching and mining. The believe that uncultivated land is wasteful and often believed that non-white and non-christian people were inferior.Native Americans need land for hunting and fishing. Some tribes farmed, only a few built a permanent residence.

Transcontinental Railroad Jobs

East to Midwest for Irish immigrants and from west to Midwest for Chinese immigrants, politicians

Transportation

People, goods and cattle, gold and payrolls

Greatest American achievement

Transcontinental Railroad

Businesses in the sub-regions

Great PlainsGreat Plains Development of ranches due to large number ofDevelopment of ranches due to large number of cattle cattle Rocky MountainsRocky Mountains Pioneers traded fur, miningPioneers traded fur, miningSouthwestSouthwest Industry was miningIndustry was miningNorthwestNorthwest Agriculture and CattleAgriculture and CattleCaliforniaCalifornia Gold rush FeverGold rush Fever

Wheeler Howard Act

Wheeler-Howard Act, June 18, 1934

(The Indian Reorganization Act)

An Act to conserve and develop Indian lands and resources; to extend to Indians the right to form business and other organizations; to establish a credit system for Indians; to grant certain rights of home rule to Indians; to provide for vocational education for Indians; and for other purposes.

Conflict led to

Dawes Act (1887)

Goal of the Dawes Act: to get Native Americans to live like white Americans

Reservations were broken up into "allotments" that were given

out to individual families.

Families were supposed to farm and build homes on their

allotment to support themselves

Land that wasn't given to a family was sold by the US government

to white farmers

Many wars ensued, ending with Battle of Wounded Knee (1890)

The last stand between Indians and the soldiers

300 Natives dead and 25 soldiers.

The dead of the tribe of Big Foot were thrown unceremoniously into a mass grave

Indian Assimilation attempts

Trying to teach “white ways” to Indians

SummaryBetween 1801 and 1861, exploration was encouraged as America underwent vast territorial expansion

and settlement. The influence of Westward migration changed the geographical status quot which  lead to the start of huge economic opportunities. At the same time woman were fighting for equal rights as the suffrage movement gained momentum.  

Prior to the Civil War, most industrialization in America was in the North. The manufactured products soon found their way to the South:;making the question of slavery even more complex. Machines were faster and could do more work than the slaves. The abolitionists began to work to end slavery. President Lincoln was faced with the daunting challenge to resolve the dual question of secession and slavery as well .Before the end of Lincoln's presidency, secession would be quelled and the institution of slavery crippled. However during this time, Lincoln would lose his life.

Expansion began again after the Civil War Reconstruction period ended in the late 1800's. The country was becoming industrialized, leading to the development of the Railroad system and the ability of people and goods to cross the country was expedited. The expansion and immigration of the late 1800s merged with this industrialization to provoke the growth of American urban society. Slavery was over. As the needs of industrial workers became ever more important, the  discrepancy in needs between America's rural and urban populations, as well as the needs of the new classes, created new problems for the ever changing economy

By the early twentieth century, the United States consisted of 48 contiguous states stretching clear across the North American continent, The devastating defeat of the Spanish in 1898 helped the US become a legitimate international power. US cities increasingly traded with foreign markets and the nation became involved in international politics. The economic and political evolution that had accompanied, and in part resulted from, westward expansion culminated with US involvement in World War One.

 

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