Why people went west

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Why people went west

• Who was there!

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Standards and EQ

• SSUSH11 The student will describe the growth of
  big business and technological innovations after
  Reconstruction
• SSUSH12 The student will analyze important
  consequences of American industrial growth.
• Enduring Understanding Explain how territorial
  and economic growth causes change in politics and
  society

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Origins of Westward expansion
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Forty Niners
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Migrating west

• As 49ers migrate to CA and settlers take the
  overland trails to the Oregon Territory, the
  middle of the country is left wide open and
  unsettled except for the Indians living there.

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W/hat you need to know and have in your notes

• The 3 land acts that helped to settle the west
  were the Pacific Railway Act, Homestead Act and
  the Morril Land grant.
• Ven Diagram the Similarities and Diff. and
  designate the diff. with the appropriate letter.

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Difficulties and Big Business

• What is a bonanza farm?
• How would difficulties in private farming lead to
  the rise of bonanza farms?
• What years were bonanza farms prevalent?
• Bonanza farms - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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The Rise of Cities and their demands for beef!

• Meatpacking

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Cattle Drives and Cowboys

• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vPaHQ2vrt0ak long
  drive
• Texas Ranching Frontier
• Cattle Trails and Chicago
• What effect did homesteads and bonanza farms have
  on the cattle industry?

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The open range period
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Open Range period

• http//www.historyonthenet.com/American_West/cattl
  e_industry.htm
• What are the reasons for the rise of the cattle
  industry.

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Cowboys

• Cattle Drive America's Dinner Sent North
  History.com Video

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Cowboys

• Based on the provided reading..PBS - THE WEST -
  Cowboys
• 1. What was the average age of cowboys?
• 2. What was pay like for Cowboys?
• 3. Why were Cowtowns notorious places?
• 4. How long was a cattle drive on average?
• 5. Describe a typical day for a cowboy (meals,
  work, shower, clothing, recreation, etc)

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Cities of the Old West

• Most cities of the west were founded for 1 of two
  reasons
• 1. Boom town city would spring up for a decade
  or so around reported gold or silver sites.
• 2. Cow Town City would be created near a
  railroad center where cattle would be shipped to
  the east.

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Life in the Wild West

• New code of the west new code of behavior was
  becoming acceptable in the West. People no longer
  had a duty to retreat when threatened. This was a
  departure from British common law that required
  citizens to have their back to the wall before
  they could protect themselves with deadly
  force.139 In 1876 an Ohio court held if
  attacked a citizen was not "obligated to fly".
  The Indiana Supreme Court upheld the legality of
  "no duty to retreat".140 The code of the West
  dictated that a man did not have to back away
  from a fight, needing to retreat no further than
  "the air at his back", and could pursue an
  adversary even if it resulted in death

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Law Men in the west

• Law Men In reality, the main activity of law
  enforcement in cattle towns was knocking down
  drunks and hauling them away before they hurt
  themselves or others. They also disarmed cowboys
  who violated gun control edicts, tried to prevent
  dueling, and dealt with flagrant breaches of
  gambling and prostitution ordinances.144 When
  the cattle were not in town, Wyatt Earp and other
  lawmen might be heading up street repair projects
  or doing other civic chores, or tending to their
  own business interests.135
• Most justices of the peace were poorly schooled
  in law, politically corrupt, and depended on
  assessing fees and fines to make a living. The
  better ones ruled by common sense and experience,
  but could be inconsistent as they did not refer
  to statutes to guide their rulings. Federal
  judges tended to have better qualifications and
  were more inclined to follow written law.
  However, the West also inherited the
  Anglo-American system of jury trials for serious
  cases in spite of the fact that most potential
  jurors were biased by their personal
  relationships and acquaintances and/or struggling
  to make ends meet, a combination which made
  honest and impartial jurors difficult to find in
  the best of circumstances.145

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Vaudville

• The west is known for traveling Variety shows
  that would traipse from town to town
• The most famous was Buffalo Bills Wild West Show
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_West_Shows