Growth in the West
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Doc Holiday | active in Arizona, 1880-1881, gun fighting, died from tuberculosis, anty |
| James Bros | Jess James, was an outlaw. He robbed banks a lot of them in Trains at the Transcontinental River. Bobby Chord assassinated, he was his possy member and turned on him, he was active in Missouri, Minnesota, and Iowa |
| Wyatt Earb | anty, he was active in Kansas and Ariozona from 1875-1881, he was famous from a famous shoot off in Tombstone, AZ, he died of natural causes |
| John Wesly | He was active from 1873-1895, he was an outlaw and killed over 40 people |
| Belle Starr | She nicknamed herself BANDIT QUEEN, RAN WITH COLE YOUNGER AND NEW JAMES BOYS, HORSE THIEF |
| Which cities were the last before the frontier? | St. Joseph and Independence, Missouri |
| frontier | unsettled/sparsely are of the country |
| What played a key role in settling west and what did it have? | Railroads, natural resources and goods |
| What two states did Gold and Silver draw fortune seekers to and in what year? | Colorado and Nevada, 1859 |
| boomtown | a town that has a sudden burst of economic/population growth |
| What are 4 places where gold was found? | Black Hills, SD/Cripple Creek, CL/Pikes Peek/Yukon Territory |
| Strip Mining | recovered more minerals, but left hillsides bear of vegetation and pollutes rivers |
| Instead of prospectors, what did mining turn to to do the work? | companies |
| What were 2 reasons why mining was hard and dangerous? | Illness, Cave-ins |
| By when was the mining boom over, what happened to people who worked in mines and what did boomtowns become? | 1890s, unemployed, ghostowns |
| Before when did the cattle industry exist? | Civil War |
| What changed made the cattle industry big? | THE EXTENSION OF THE RAILROAD from Chicago and St. Louis into Kansas |
| Where did Cowhands begin to drive cattle to? Where would they be shipped? | Abilene Kansas, east |
| Long Drive | cattle drive to a cow town |
| What was the first cowhand trail? | Chisholm Trails |
| Chisholm Trails | Cattle trail that begin in San Antonia and ended in Abilene, Kansas |
| Vaqueros | First cowhands and they came from Spain in the 1500s |
| What did Americans learn from the vaquero? | To rope and ride, give the americans the saddle, spurs, and chaps |
| In the 1800s what were many cowhands? | Mexican and Black |
| Why did Black cowhands come west? | Blackcodes during and after reconstructions |
| At first, what did cow towns not have? What did that cause? Who also did it? Why? | No Law enforcement, men drank, gambled, and swindled people, Civil War Veterans because of hard feelings after the war |
| Who were 4 famous people in the Wild West? | Billy the Kid, James Brothers, John Wesley Hardin, Belle Star |
| Because of crime, what did citizens form? | vigilante |
| vigilant | people who took the law into their own hands and they usually did no trials and they hung people |
| How long did the cattle industry boom? | 20 years |
| By when did the cattle industry come to an end? Why? | 1886, The price of beef fell/Barbed wire was invented/Harsh winter (86-87) and cattle died because of that |
| What did women in the west face? What did they try to do? | Hardship and loneliness, they tried to turn the west into settled communities |
| Homestead | a piece of land and the house on it |
| While men left the homestead, what did most women do? | they stayed behind |
| What type of jobs were available for women? | traditional and nontraditional jobs |
| Which women had more rights, west or east? What could women in that side do? | west, owned property/control their own money, in 1869, Wyoming gave women the right to vote and by 1900, so did Colorado, Utah, and Idaho |
| What did most americans think of the west as? Why? | Larger than life, "dime" fiction novels and non fiction which exaggerated real life accounts |
| Who brought the west to people through wild west show? | William "Buffalo Bill" Cody |
| Wild West Show | It cost 50 cents and lasted 3 hours. They traveled all over the world, the star-spangled banner, then they wen around wildly. Annie Oakley shot targets off of her poodle's head. They did reenactments in active buffalo hunt, They had a crew of 700 including Sitting Bull and Native Americans, they had animals and gears (such as ammunition) |
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