Bringing back MTV

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Bringing back MTV!
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The 1st Step towards becoming Modern for the
US
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WE GO WESTAGAIN!in the1880s
Ooooh! I want to go to the West!
You Got it Baby!
NORM
Ethel
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INTERACTIVE PPT

• Needed Today
• Lance
• Herbert
• Duke
• Civil War Vet Buck
• Immigrant Andy
• Former Slave Tom
• John Denver
• Monopoly Man
• Farmer 1, 2, and 3
• Rich Dude
• Nancy
• Frontier Fred (southern accent please)

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WHY WEST?
Herbert AAs must have left because of KKK
Lance I was Tired of the North v. South Drama!
Duke I wanted some Gold Silver!
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THINK ABOUT THE CHANGES YOU LEARNED ABOUT
YESTERDAY

• What new Invention could help them move to the
  west?

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RAILROADS!

• HUGE expansion
• 1850-71
• 1871
• 130 Mil acres given to
• RR!
• 1890
• 200,000 miles long!

Goes from Sea to Shining Sea
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TRANSCONTINENTAL RR
1867 race to lay
2 Companies compete

• Central Pacific (go East)
• - Sacramento

2. Union Pacific (go West) - Omaha
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THEY MEET!
Transcontinental RR
1st time a RR goes cross country!
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WAIT A MINUTE.

• WHO DO YOU THINK BUILT ALL OF THOSE TRACKS?
• It takes A LOT of man power to build a RR!

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WELL, WHAT TYPE OF PEOPLE DO YOU SEE BELOW?
Civil War Vet Buck Theres no jobs anywhere
elsewhat other choice did I have?
Frm Slave Tom I had to escape the crazy KKK!
IMMIGRANT ANDY I provide cheap labor because
Im Chinese they think its fine to treat me like
crap! My Irish Friend Patty is in the same boat!

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This work Stinks!

• Treacherous Terrain
• Chinese have to dig a tunnel through a granite
  mountain.
• Took 5 months, they lived in a camp surrounded by
  40 ft of snow!
• Many accidents
• theyre not trained for this!
• Fall over hills, cliffs, Hundreds Buried in
  avalanches, found frozen Still clutching shovels
  or picks.
• Diseases
• Long hours, Backbreaking work
• Think of how heavy RR ties are!

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Hard Work NO PAY

• Low Wages!
• AAs Immigrants make less than whites!
• Whites 40 a day for 10 hours Free meals!
• Immigrants 35 dawn to dusk, no meals
• Malnutrition
• We eat our hard bread tainted meat 2 days old
  on sooty cars up the road, and when we get home,
  find our children gnawing on bones our wives
  complaining that they cannot even buy food. Life
  is awful, but better than East.

By 88 2,000 killed 20,000 injured!
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POSITIVE EFFECTS OF RRs
John Denver I adore RR songs! Sing along with
me!

• Linked distant markets
• Increased communication
• Increased Industries
• Iron, steel, lumber
• 4. Shaped culture
• were obsessed w/ it!
• Art, Lit, music, jokes, sayings
• ? Ive been working on the railroad ?
• Getting sidetracked

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• NEGATIVE Effects
• 1. Encouraged bribery corruption
• Erie RR gave 1 million to NY politicians
  shady!
• 2. RR set a fixed rate farmers in debt!
• -Farmers lose their farms
• 3.Cost to ship grain Cost to buy
• Cost more to ship grain on RR from
• MINN to Chicago
• than by boat to ENGLAND!

Monopoly Man Ps, Im corrupt!
F2 This stinks!
F1 Were so poor
F3 Bye bye pretty crops!
Rich Dude Suckers!
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So, RR make it easy to go to the WestBUT why
would people pack up their entire lives to move
to a strange, unsettled place?
Thats a great question!
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NEW OPPORTUNITIES!

• 1. Gold Silver! (still)
• 2. Homestead Act
• 160 acres free IF after 5 years they have
• (1) established residency
• (2) improved the land!
• 1862-00 1.3 million families go West.
• only 320,000 actually keep the land

SHADY!
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Nanc SO WHAT TYPE OF WORK DID HOMESTEADERS DO
IN THE WEST?
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DRY LAND CATTLE FARMERS

• Grew to be HUGE industry
• Cities want Beef!
• Youre only cool if you eat beef
• Ship on RR

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The Frontier Closes
Sorry Pardner, This here frontier is closed, No
more land for anyone, why dont you go moved to
the city with the rest of em
1893
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LIVE FOOTAGETHE HOMESTEAD ACT

• Isnt it strange that someone from 1893 looks
  like Tom Cruise?!?!

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Please put your notes away

• And answer this question

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Who would be upset about this great migration to
the West?
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NAs!

• Remember
• They own most of the land!
• Whites think
• Their land isnt settled or improved SOGet
  off!
• Huge Battles NA Massacred
• I want no peace until the Indians suffer more
• -Col. SR Curtis

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