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Please hand in DBQs (put your name on all three

Please hand in DBQs (put your name on all three. Scaffolding questions on top… Outline in middle…. Essay on bottom. Recommendations for next year:. Regular Economics OR Honors Economics National Issues Forum OR “SUPA”: Public Affairs- Syracuse University Project Advance.

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Please hand in DBQs (put your name on all three

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  1. Please hand in DBQs (put your name on all three • Scaffolding questions on top… • Outline in middle…. • Essay on bottom

  2. Recommendations for next year: • Regular Economics OR • Honors Economics • National Issues Forum OR • “SUPA”: Public Affairs- Syracuse University Project Advance

  3. Few items of business…. • Civil War test corrections… • Speak to me if interesting in higher level SS classes next year… • Reconstruction Open Notebook quiz due Friday… • Mid-term: Thursday and Friday of next week • Study? Look back over unit reviews and unit summaries • regentsprep.org- look over q’s for topics 1- 3a

  4. Unit 6- The “Gilded Age”1870- 1900ish

  5. UNIT 6: The Gilded Age, 1870- 1900ish • Settling the West • Growth of “Big Business” • Growth of organized labor • Immigration/ urbanization

  6. Transcontinental Railroad • 1864 PACIFIC RAILWAYAct • $16,000- $48,000 granted to every mile of rail • Extensive LAND GRANTSof government property were given to the companies for 10 miles on either side of the track • TELEGRAPHlines were to be built alongside the route • May 10, 1869- two lines connect at PROMONTORY POINT, UTAH

  7. Encouraging settlers to move to the Great Plains- • 1862 HOMESTEADAct • Any citizen (who had not born arms against the US) could claim 160acres of government land for a minimal filing fee • Had to “improve” lot by building a dwelling and cultivating the land • After 5years, homesteaders owned the property, free and clear

  8. Conflict with the “Plains Indians” • The transcontinental railroad, arrival of homesteaders and killing of Buffalo destroys the lives of the Plains Indians • The “Plains Wars”: • from 1860- 1890, series of conflicts between the U.S. and Native Americans • 1890 Massacre at WOUNDED KNEE • final “battle” after almost 300 years of conflict between whites and Natives Sites of Indian battles, 1860- 1890

  9. The government tries to resolve the “Indian problem” • In the late 1800s, Natives are placed on RESERVATIONSthroughout the west • 1887 DAWESAct • attempt to “assimilate” Natives by dissolving communal reservations and forcing Natives to live on small family farms • reservations would be broken up, and Native families would get 160 acres of land. Left over land would be sold for profit to white settlers. • disastrous effect:  Land owned by Indians decreased from 138 million acres in 1887 to 48  million acres in 1934

  10. Reservations: lands set aside for Native Americans • Impact of Dawes Act: Lose most of their remaining land in late 1800s

  11. Who was responsible for the Battle of Little Bighorn?

  12. Who was responsible for the Battle of Little Bighorn? Cameron Report Kate Bighead Interview

  13. 30 years of conflict in West… Sites of Indian battles, 1860- 1890

  14. Positives and Negatives of “taming the west”? • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWRPBmmVOGU

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