The South and West Transformed

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The South and West Transformed

• Chapter 3, Section 3

2
New South

• Mixed economy
• Started to develop manufacturing
• Alabama steel producing
• Did not grow as fast as the North
• Had to borrow from the North
• What were some other problems the South
  encountered?

3
Difficult Times

• Attack of the Boll Weevil
• Sharecropping landowners controlled crops and
  homes
• South stripped African Americans of Rights

4
The Sharecropping System
CHART
Chart The Sharecropping System
5
Clashes with American Indians

• Indian Removal Act move to Oklahoma
• Stay be killed
• Settlers decimated buffalo herds
• Native Resistance
• 39 Dakota Tribe hanged
• Custers Last Stand
• Surrender of Chief Joseph

6
Assimilation

• Become part of the main culture
• Dawes Act divide reservations to force
  assimilation
• The West
• Transcontinental Railroad
• Granted 200 million acres of land
• Open Range gov. owned grassland
• Ship steer via train

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Assignment

• P. 83 1 and 2
• P. 86 1 and 4