Farming, Trains, and Mechanization
New farming technology (Mechanical Reaper and the Combine Harvester) and the opening of the West by the Homestead Act made it easier to grow crops. However, this increased production led to a (blank) in crops prices which would ultimately hurt homesteaders in the long run?
Lowering
Despite their popularity in modern culture, these workers had a relatively short golden age. They attracted people from multi-racial backgrounds both African-American, Latino, and White to herd cattle from ranches to Cowtowns along the railroad. As more railroads were built, and barbed wire was invented and widely used. The (blanks) were no longer as common.
Cowboys
Henry Grady, editor of an Atlanta newspaper coined this term to describe how the Antebellum Days of the South are over, and the South has changed and is open for business.
New South
Trains
What is our student teacher's name?
Ms. Vreeland
Despite the Homestead Act guaranteeing nearly 160 acres of land, high freight rates charged by railroad companies, expensive new farming equipment, low prices of crops, and harsh weather would ultimately make farming in the west more difficult for big corporate farms or small farmers?
Small Farmers
Railroad Trusts usually would purchase land along the railroads at cheap rates and sell back to farmers. Why would small farmers wish to buy land next to the railroads instead of use the Homestead Act to obtain land miles and miles away from the railroads?
Part of the New South included diversifying or mixing the South's economy and taking note of the North's economy. Now the South has industrialized but also still holding on to this, but without using enslaved labor.
Agriculture
Communication is key, and also a lot easier in thanks to the telephone and (blank)
Telegraph
What school holiday starts soon?
Spring Break
The (Blank) movement for farmers led to the development of more politically active communities in the west and even eventually lead to the passing of the Commerce Act which created the Interstate Commerce Commission (to limited effect) which was designed to regulate interstate trade and control shipping prices.
Grange Movement/Grangers
After the rapid population of the American West, and the hunting of the buffalo to near extinction, this group of people led wars of resistance against the United States to preserve their land and way of life.
Native Americans (Sioux, Comanche, Nez Perce Tribes etc.)
This labor system replaced slavery, in which farmers were paid in a share of the crop, but ultimately would lead to a vicious debt cycle in which farmers had difficulty escaping
Sharecropping
Henry Bessemer came up with the idea of melting down iron, blasting it with air to remove impurities, and once it cools down to its solid form you had (blank) used to build expanding city structures, bridges, and railroads among many others
Steel
How many dogs does Mr. Lee have?
0, it's a trick question
The Pacific Railways Act and Homestead Act (both passed in 1862) led to an increase in Western population. The Homestead Act was a law that provided 160 acres of land to farmers willing to work the land for five years. The Pacific Railways Act was a law that gave free land to Railroad Companies in the West to make the (blank) that connected the Eastern and Western US
Transcontinental Railroad
The Western indian Wars more or less ended with the Massacre of hundreds of Native Americans at (Blank) in South Dakota after the popularization of the Ghost Dance Movement
Wounded Knee
The Compromise of 1877 ended the US Army's occupation of the South, but also led to the rise of Jim Crow Laws which relegated African-Americans to second class citizens. The Supreme Court Case Plessy v. Ferguson led to the "Blank" but "Blank" doctrine that allowed the South to segregate society.
Separate but Equal
Vertical
Who wins in a fight, mothman or bigfoot?
Mothman
These two precious metals were found in the American West in modern day states like California, Nevada, and Colorado. This led to the creation of boomtowns/mining towns, but also pollution, and further displacement of Native Americans. (If you can't think of it off the top of your head, think of the Yukon Cornelius Song from Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer)
Gold and Silver
With the DAwes Act (1887), Native AmericanS were alotted land in arid regionS to farm lIke Western settlers. Native AMerIcan ResidentiaL Schools were boArding schools designed to "Kill The Indian, SavE the Child," and the Reservation System was designed to reserve land for Native Americans to govern themselves like American towns. This was all done in an attempt to homogenize, or blend-in Native Americans. This attempt to blend-in a people is also called: (Hint, look at the italics)
Assimilate
Lynching
Talk about a lightbulb moment, the use of (Blank) would change the way we live forever. But be sure you don't shock yourself!
Electricity
Lol free points
+500