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Us history Period 6: Chapter 17: The Last West and the New South, [339 - 353] class notes verified A+ Us history Period 6: Chapter 17: The Last West and the New South, [339 - 353] class notes verified A+ Us history Period 6: Chapter 17: The Last West and the New South, [339 - 353] class notes verified A+ Period 6: Chapter 17: The Last West and the New South, [339 - 353] Due Date: January 11 The West: Settlement of the Last Frontier - After Civil War many Ams settled in vast arid territory of west (Great Plains, Rocky Mtns, Western Plateau) - AKA “the Great American Desert” (between MI river and Pacific) - Low rainfall, winter blizzards, hot dry summers - Large number of buffalo provided food, clothing, shelter and tools for Indians in 1865 - By 1900 Buffalo herds wiped out, western lands contained homesteads, railroads, new states formed, - Rush to get Western natural resources almost made buffalo extinct and damaged environment; Indians impacted with population and culture - The Mining Frontier - California Gold Rush 1848- start of quest for gold and silver extending into 1890s - Series of gold and silver strikes kept steady flow of new prospector settlement - Discovery of gold near Pikes Peak Co in 1859 attracted 100,000 settlers - Discovery of Comstock Lode in 1859 enabled Nevada to enter Union in 1864 - Idaho and Montana statehood because of mining booms - Prospectors first used placer mining to locate trace amounts of gold using basic tools; led to deep-shaft mining that require expensive equipment - Rich strikes created boomtowns overnight (saloons, dance-hall girls, and vigilante justice) - Became ghost towns after gold ran out - Mark Twain started career as writer working on VA City newspaper in 1860s - San Francisco, Sacramento, and Denver served the miens and expanded into prosperous cities - Chinese Exclusion Act - As mines developed, mining companies employed experienced miners from Europe, Latin America, and China - In many mining towns ½ of population foreign-born - ⅓ of western miners in 1860s were Chinese immigrants; Americans resented the competition - Hostility to foreigners: Miners Tax of $20/month on all foreign-born miners - Political pressure from western states caused passage of Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882 - Prohibited further immigration to US by Chinese laborers; immigration from China severely restricted until 1965 - First major act of Congress to restrict immigration on the basis of race and nationality - Mining stimulated settlement of West and reshaped economics and politics of nation - Increase in silver created crisis over relative value of gold and silver-backed currency - Bitter political issue in 1880s and 1890s - Mining boom left environmental scars and caused American Indians to lose lands - The Cattle Frontier - Traditions of cattle business in late 1800s borrowed from the Mexicans - 1860s: wild herds of 5 million head of cattle roamed over Texas grasslands - Easy business because both cattle and grass were free - Construction of RR into KS after war opened up easter markers for TX cattle - Joseph G. McCoy built first stockyards in Abilene KS to hold cattle for Chicago - Dodge City and other cow towns built up along railroads to handle millions of cattle driven up trails out of TX during 1860s and 1870s - Cowboys (many Africa

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