settling the west us history ch 11. the new south many believed south could never return to an...
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Settling the West
US History Ch 11
The New South
• Many believed South could never return to an agricultural society
• Rail Roads, Tobacco Processing, Cotton Mills• Remains largely Agrarian
New Southern Labor
• Tenant Farmers- rented land to farm• Share Croppers- Shared crops for rented land• Country stores could use crop liens for
delinquent payments• Debt Peonage- sharecropper couldn’t leave
until all dept was paid
Why did people migrate west
• Gold• New Opportunities• Minerals: Demand for minerals rise after civil
war.• America industrialization after Civil War
Boomtowns
• Quick growing towns• Existed before Civil War• Nevada Admitted to the union after Virginia
city silver strike, 230,000,000 in silver• Rough places used Vigilance Committees to
enforce law and order• Ghost Towns after mines dried up
Impact of Boomtowns
• Many new states out west• Rail Roads expand to boom towns
Ranchers and Cattle Drivers
• Cattle ranching prospers because of “open range” and civil war
• Cattle Drives take roaming cattle from midwest east were the command higher prices (long drive)
• Barbed Wire ends cattle drives
Farming the Great Planes
• Land thought to be useless proves to be fertile farming land
• Buffalo “Wal-Mart on Hooves”• Rail Roads help with settling the land• Homestead Act:10 dollar registration fee, 160
acre tract of land, must live there 5 years before owning.
