After the civil war the west continued to expand. The homestead act and transcontinental railroad led to the growth of towns and cities as well as farming and the cattle industry. Farmers faced problems and organized the farmers alliance the largest citizens movement of the nineteenth century farmers sought to remedy their situation‚ it was founded in texas in the late 1870’s‚ the alliance spread to forty-three stats by 1890. The alliance proposed that the federal government establish warehouses
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Andrew Carnegie Research Paper Andrew Carnegie was one of Americas most famous entrepreneurs‚ and one of the richest people of his time. Born on November 25th‚ 1835 in Dunfermline‚ Scotland‚ United Kingdom. He then later moved to America‚ possibly was one of the greatest decisions he ever made. He was one of the greatest businessmen‚ philanthropist‚ and made it large in the American economy. Carnegie was involved in the steel industry‚ and was the steel king of his time‚ owning nearly 80% of the
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that the American Western Hero is compassionate toward the downtrodden and takes their side in a fight for survival. The downtrodden family of the story is the Starrett’s. Joe and Marian Starrett have moved to Wyoming with their son Bob under the Homestead Act. They have moved on to land once used by Luke Fletcher‚ the antagonist of the story. Luke is a rancher who once used the land to herd cattle. Luke has decided that he no longer needs the land‚ and has sold it to a few different families who
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place in the second half of the nineteenth century were the expansion of the West and the decline of Native Americans. In the middle of the Civil War‚ Congressional Northerners were looking to populate the West with free labor and they developed the Homestead Act of 1862. This Act would promise settlers 160 acres of land to populate and develop and after five years‚ the land would become theirs. Almost 400‚000 farms were developed and populated between 1862-1890. Although the settlers were dealing with
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Analyze the impact of immigration on American life during the 1890s The 1890s have brought immigration have changes the American life. It has boosted the economic perspective as well as the economy‚ caused a surplus in population and has caused government to overreact by creating an amplitude off laws. To begin with‚ the economy during the 1890s flourished. The increase of population such as the Chinese moving to California‚ made the farmers get an easy source of cheap labor. That means less
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difficulties. Many families chose to head west‚ despite all the bad that could possibly happen. I would be one of those families. Moving west provides a grand opportunity to start over. With so many people moving west the government established the Homestead Act‚ which gave people over the age of 21 to file a claim for up to 160 acres of land. The best area to end up in was next to the railroads. If you where in that general area then it was much easier to get your merchandise to the market. Eventually
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January 13‚ 2013 Chapter 26 Notes (1865-1896) * The Clash Of Cultures on the Plains 1) As the White settlers began to populate the Great West‚ the Indians‚ caught in the middle‚ increasingly turned against each other‚ were infected with White man’s diseases‚ and were stuck battling to hunt the few remaining bison 2) The Sioux‚ displaced by Chippewas from the their ancestral lands at the headwaters of the Mississippi in the late 1700s‚ expanded at the expense of the Crows‚ Kiowas‚ and
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Jackie Nichols Week 19 Rewrite‚ Prompt 3 The frontier was mainly a wild place until men went looking for gold and land‚ justifying their radical and violent attempts to gain land by what they believed to be Manifest Destiny. What whites discovered as they moved west were tribes of Indians settled on what they claimed as “their” land. This want for land was driven by the second Industrial Revolution‚ prompting the removal of Indians and war to commence. The second Industrial Revolution pioneered
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What lessons‚ if any‚ have we learned from the dust bowl catastrophe—about how human actions‚ well-intentioned or not‚ can lead to environmental damage? Is there anything comparable on the horizon today?225). What lessons‚ if any‚ have we learned from the dust bowl catastrophe—about how human actions‚ well-intentioned or not‚ can lead to environmental damage? Is there anything comparable on the horizon today? Drawing on more contemporary examples of environmental disasters or concerns‚ write a paper
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roles both the government and workers played in the strike. Eggert’s choice in analyzing the great railway strikes of 1877 was one of curiosity as much as education because the railway strikes are not as famous and well taught as others such as the homestead strike of the 1890’s. Eggert analyzed everything from the spark that started the initial strike to the spread of multiple strikes like wildfire across the rest of the country. This lack of popularity in the subject makes this article even more
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