Mistreatment of Indians

Little Bighorn

Wounded Knee

Source http://visualhistory.freewebpages.org/Late1800s.html

Source: http://www.ibiscom.com/images/cu01.jpg : http://www.zulunation.com/images/SITTING_BULL_2.jpg

Source: http://www.iwchildren.org/eagle1/yelobird3.jpg

Many Native Americans were forced

onto reservations.

This picture shows a Native American

boarding house to assimilate them into “American” society.

Cartoon showing the corruption often present in Indian

Affairs.

Large stack of buffalo hides shows the level of

buffalo massacres.

Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce were chased 1,000 miles and forced

on reservations.

Sitting Bull (L) and Crazy Horse (R) defeated and killed General George Custer (center) and his men at the battle of Little Bighorn in 1876.

The Indian Wars ended at the Wounded Knee Massacre in 1890.

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Cattle Drive and the Cowboy

Dime Novels

Mining Life

Source: http://yes2art.com/g.molstad/paintings/gmpai3cat405.jpg

Source http://www.jed.com/poorhouseboy.htm

Source: http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/resources/archives/images/wimg660/blhlmnr2.gif

The life of most cowboys wasn’t like the movies. Most of their time was spent on the ranch or trails herding cattle. Here are some

real cowboys next to their “chuck wagon”

Once the cattle drive was finished and they

were paid, many cowboys visited

saloons.

Picture of the Famous outlaw Jesse James

The stagecoach brought mail and

people between towns in the West.

These miners worked in a highly mechanized

mine.

Famous Frederick Remington painting of an Old West Cowboy

The cattle drive was why most cowboys were needed in the

West.

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Homestead Act

Women in the West

Life on the Plains

Source: http://www.lib.ndsu.nodak.edu/ndirs/exhibitions/pioneer/images/240.jpg

Source: http://www.michaelmccurdy.com/west.jpg

Source: http://darwin.gborocollege.edu/facstaff/fords/sod-6.jpg

True picture of the land giveaway in

Oklahoma

Sod House in NebraskaFrontier woman

hauling buffalo chips for fuel.

Transcontinental Railroads helped bring people to the frontier.

Homestead Family moving west.

Some farmers began to use more modern

mechanized farm equipment.

Farmers harvesting using McCormick

equipment

The completion of the transcontinental

railroads meant farmers had access to far way

markets

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The Grange

Populists

Gold vs. Silver Election

Source http://visualhistory.freewebpages.org/Late1800s.html

Source: http://www.bryan.edu/historical/bryanpose.jpg

Source:http://www.americasstory.com/assets/aa/bryan/aa_bryan_silver_2_e.jpg:

1874 meeting of the Grange

Populist and Democratic Candidate for President William

Jennings Bryan

Poster showing various professions around the country and then showing how

the farmer is responsible for feeding us all.

William Jennings Bryan’s famous “Cross of Gold

Speech”

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Captains of Industry

Transcontinental Railroads

Effects of the Railroads

Andrew Carnegie Cornelius Vanderbilt

Thomas Edison with his newly invented

phonograph

The first oil in the US was found by Francis Drake in

Titusville Pennsylvania

Railroad owner James J. Hill

Standard Oil owner John D.

Rockefeller

Railroads helped to standardize the nation

with time zone creations

Edison and his fellow inventors working on

the lightbulb

Source: http://faculty.plattsburgh.edu/richard.robbins/legacy/Rockfeller_visage.jpg : http://us.history.wisc.edu/hist102/photos/assets/photos/1043.jpg

Source: http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/images/promontory_point_utah.jpg

Source: http://www.manifold.net/news/timezones.jpg

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Philanthropy

Social Darwinists

Monopolies

Source: http://www.carnegieuktrust.org.uk/images/acbuilt.jpg

Source: http://www.jed.com/poorhouseboy.htm

Source http://visualhistory.freewebpages.org/Late1800s.html

Robber Baron turned philanthropist Andrew

Carnegie

Robber Baron John D. Rockefeller

Horatio Alger Dime Novel about becoming

richAstor family mansion

on 5th Avenue, NY

Famous cartoon showing the Senate being controlled by

Trusts

Many times big businesses ran over

the rights of the small business or the

workers as seen here

Cartoon showing Rockefeller

examining the “funny Little

Government” which is powerless to stop

him

Many monopolies were formed either through horizontal or vertical

integration of businesses.

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Exploitation of Workers

Gompers and the AFL

Haymarket Square Riot

Source: http://www.msha.gov/CENTURY/LITTLE/Images/PIC1.gif

Source: http://us.history.wisc.edu/hist102/photos/assets/photos/1055.jpg

Source: http://www.picturehistory.com/images/products/thumbnails/0/1/1/prod_1127_s.jpg

Young and work-abused coal miner

Young boy working in a mill

Samuel Gompers leads the AFL, a union for

skilled workers

The Greed of many employers put children

to work for very little pay

The Riot at Haymarket Square in Chicago left a harsh feeling toward many unions and their leaders across the

nation

Many workers began to support alternative

economic systems

Labor leader Eugene V. Debs begins the Industrial Union

movement and later turns to Socialism

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Old and New Immigration

Tenement Life

Reformers---Riis and Adams

Source http://visualhistory.freewebpages.org/Late1800s.html

Source: http://www.lenbernstein.com/Pages/FiveCents350.jpg

Source:http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/wilson/images/sfeature/jacobriis.jpg : http://www.soc.iastate.edu/soc505b/Images/Jane%20Addams.jpg

Inside of a tenement room inhabited by the

urban poorSocial activist Jane

Addams

Reformer Jacob Riis called our attention to

the poor

Children play in the street near a dead horse

illustrating sanitation problems

Immigrants wait in lines to be processed

Immigrants are put through a medical

exam

Many immigrants faced immediate forms of discrimination after arriving in America

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Political Machines

Tweed Ring

Political Reform

Source: http://www.authentichistory.com/images/postcivilwar/cartoons/1871_boss_tweed.jpg

Source: http://www1.ttcn.ne.jp/~fujiyan/manhattan/soho/whostoles.jpg

Source: http://www.healthmedialab.com/presmed/garf1.jpg

The assassination of James Garfield by a

snubbed official

Grover Cleveland tried unsuccessfully to

reform the tariff in two terms

Money is what this man has in his mind.

Corrupt officials often practiced election

fraud to stay in office

Corrupt politicians act as vultures waiting for

their meal.

“Who stole the People’s Money?” is the question being

asked of these men.

Nast cartoon showing the “wholesale”

robbing of the public treasury.

The Grant Administration was filled with corrupt

officials

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