The WestBellwork 9/3 •1. Who were the Exodusters? Where were they coming from? •2. The development of what assisted the cattle ranchers in the West? •3. The Homestead Acts did what for the people moving West? Notes The Battle of Little Bighorn •US Army •Lieutenant Colonel George Custer •650 Soldiers •Native Americans (Lakota, Dakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho) •Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse •2,500 (Number Disputed) Class Assignment - Watch Video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM4eQBpfGIg) Develop Costa’s Level Questions on the video/Letter • •2 Level One on Video/Notes 1 Level One on Letter 2 Level Two on Video/Notes 1 Level Two on Letter Bellwork 9/4 •1. Custer died in the Battle of what? •2. True or False: Custer was not confident that his side would win the battle? •3. After the Battle what did Sitting Bull do? Notes Reservation •was created to keep Native Americans off of lands that European Americans wished to settle. •The reservation system allowed Indian tribes to govern themselves and to maintain some of their cultural and social traditions. Closing the Frontier •On April 22, 1889, the government opened on of the last large territories for settlement. •Within hours, thousands of people raced to stake claims in an event known as the Oklahoma Land Rush. •These people became known as “Sooners”
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Class Notes 8/29 (New Unit) The West The Transcontinental Railroad
•Between 1862-1864, Congress passed the Pacific Railway Acts •It subsidized the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroad companies to build a transcontinental railroad. •They relied on cheap labor(usually immigrants) to lay tracks •Chinese and Irish Immigrants •Central Pacific started in Sacramento, California •Union Pacific started in Omaha, Nebraska The Homestead Act •The Homestead Acts were several laws in the United States by which an applicant could acquire ownership of government land or the public domain, typically called a homestead Cattle Ranchers •Post- Civil War prosperity in the Northeast created a demand for beef •Ranchers using the Great Plains abundant amount of grass Introduced Barbed Wire Exodusters •Exodusters was a name given to African Americans who migrated from states along the Mississippi River to Kansas in the late nineteenth century •Part of the Exoduster Movement or Exodus of 1879. •It was the first general migration of black people following the Civil War Bellwork 8/28 •1. What was the Compromise of 1877? •2. Southern Boosters wanted to do what in the South? •3. The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendment were set up to do what? 4. What was the result of the Plessy v. Ferguson case? Class Notes Black Codes
•The Black Codes were laws passed in 1865 and 1866 by Southern states in the United States after the American Civil War in order to restrict African Americans' freedom, and to compel them to work in a labor economy based on low wages or debt. •These codes prevented the Freedmen’s Bureau from doing its work. Jim Crow •Laws were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States. •All were enacted in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by white Democratic-dominated state legislatures after the Reconstruction period. •The laws were enforced until 1965. Class Notes Plessy v. Ferguson •When Homer Plessy rode in a whites-only segregated railroad car and was arrested, he sued the railroad company • The Supreme Court rules in the Plessy v. Ferguson decision that segregation was legal as long as facilities for blacks were “Separate but Equal” to those for whites. •The Civil War was over, but equality was still a long road away Class Assignment (8/27) On Document Analysis Form
Answer these Questions 1. Who wrote this?/Who is involved? 2. Who read/received it? 3. When/where is it from? 4. What is it talking about?/Main points? 5. What was happening at the time in history this document was created? 6. What did you find out from this document that you might not learned anywhere else? Class Notes Sharecropping
•is a form of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on their portion of land. •Sharecropping has a long history and there are a wide range of different situations and types of agreements that have used a form of the system. New South Mill Economy •As the railroad expanded in the South, production of cotton, wheat, and tobacco increased. •Northern Investments in the South • It was difficult to earn a living from farming without being in a “cycle of debt” •Southerners turned to Mills to provide for their families Southern Boosters •Hoped to shape the region’s economy to resemble that of the North, focusing not only on industry but on infrastructure as well. • New South boosters were white, and they ensured that the innovations they sought conformed to the region’s racial status quo. Class NotesBellwork
•1. Who was the presidential candidates for the Election of 1876? •2. Who won the election? How? •3. What was the result of this election? 13th Amendment •Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. 14th Amendment •It ensured that any person (except Native Americans) born or naturalized in the U.S. was a citizen with full rights •All of the states had to accept these amendments to reenter the Union •This led to: •Riots in the South •An influx of black voters •An unsuccessful attempt by Johnson to oppose it 15th Amendment •Right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude." Class Notes
Bell-Work 8/19 •1. True or False: Missouri was a Border State? •2. Which Union General led a “March to the Sea”? •3. The battle at which Fort started the Civil War? •4. Which city was it located in? Class Notes 8/19 (Reconstruction/New South) Reconsturction
•Was the name of the era after the Civil War •1865-1877 • The government and people struggled to find a balance between uniting the country and assisting the former slaves. The Ku Klux Klan •In 1866, a secret organization called the Ku Klux Klan was organized in Tennessee with the purpose of opposing civil rights • Wearing disguises and hiding their faces, members attacked individuals, lynching many. • The Force Acts passed by Congress allowed the military to enforce the Fourteenth Amendment, Which helped destroy the KKK, it would be resurrected in the 1920s Redeemers •Southern Democrats retook control of their state governments. Seen as the restorers of the “true South” (Redeemers) •decrease taxes, •decrease the size of the government •decrease racial equality •Southern states instituted Poll Taxes (requiring people to pay money to vote) •Literacy Tests (Requiring a certain level of literacy to vote) •These measure made it very difficult for former slaves to participate in government • Grandfather Clauses, laws that protected men whose fathers or grandfathers voted before the Civil War(because they were white) Tuesday - August 13 Bell work
•1. Who was the First President of the United States? •2. During the Civil War, the two sides were known as what? •3. The National Anthem was created during which War? Practice Civics Test •1. Name the two major political parties in the US? •2. What is the economic system in the US? •3. How long is a US Representative in office for? •4. What did the Declaration of Independence do? •5. What ocean is on the east coast of the United States? •6. What did the Emancipation Proclamation do? •7. How many senators are there? •8. What is the capital of the United States? •9. How many years are in a Presidents term? •10. Name one branch of the government? •11. Why does the US flag have 13 stripes? •12. What is Susan B. Anthony best known for? •13. What is the name of the National Anthem? 14. Why does the flag have 50 stars? |
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