Frontiers Flashcards
The Great Plains were located
from Mississippi to Colorado
The Rocky Mountains located
around Utah, Montana, etc
The Great Plains
farming
The Rocky Mountains
mining
Basins
good land for both farming and mining
Native Americans in the Western Frontier had issues with
Buffalo Hunters, railroads and the US government
Western Tensions
Cowherders vs Sheepherders
Ranchers vs Farmer
Minorities vs Nativist
Environmentalist vs Big Businesses
where the transcontinental railroad met
Promontory Point, Utah
The Big Four Railroad Magnets
Crucker
Hopkins
Huntington
Sanford
Cattle Frontier was based off of
transporting cows to railroads to be brought to big cities to be slaughtered
Chicago
big city in slaughtering
Cowherders vs Sheepherders
sheep would use the same trials as the cattle and eat the grass on the trials, leaving cows with no food
Cowherders vs Farmers
cows stepping on farms, farmers make barbed wire fences, cowherders cut that shit so cows would get stuck and stabbed
List the frontiers
Cattle
Mining
Agricultural
Mining Frontier
formed wherever something precious was found
Miners v Native Americans
started from gold being found and American settlements starting on Indian land
cowtowns
where cow trails and railroads met
cow boys
young, constantly living out the house, moved the cows to the railroads, etc
boom towns
lawless and vigilante justice
in Anaconda Copper Mining
Anaconda Copper Mining
major copper mine
The people of the Agricultural Frontier
used what they had to survive
thresher
easier to collect seeds
water pumps
Prairie Fun
Rangers
union of farmers that helped each other
- bought in bulk
- negotiated with railroads
Exodusters
African Americans moving west forming farms
Buffalo Soldiers
black soldiers
Homestead Act
anyone 21 or older or head of the family can receive land for free if they settle it for 5 years and make improvements or after 6 months the land can be purchased.
“homesteaders”
those who took advantage of the homestead act’s first part (5 years and it’s yours!)
Timber Culture Act
gave “homesteaders” additional land IF THEY IRRIGATED THE LAND
Oriental Exclusion Act & Chinese Exclusion Act
stopped Asain immigration to the US
Treat of Lorine and Treaty of Medicine Lodge Hill
placed Native Americans in reservations
“I will fight no more forever”
Chief Joseph
The general who fought in Battle of Little Big Horn
G. Custer
Leaders of the Dakota Sous
Sitting bull and crazy horse
The Century of Dishonor
Helen Hunt Jackson
Suzette Fiescha
Omaha Indian, who lectured about what was happening to Indians
Issues with the Dawes Severity Act
Different nations in one reservation
Indians were hunters not farmers
The soil they were taught on was rocky
The Indians did not want to assimilate
Romanticized the west
Buffalo Bill Cody
The Sierra Club
Group of environmentalist that advocated for national parks
