The West: 1865-1900
(Chp 16 Green Book)

I. People who setteld West
A. Southerners
B. Blacks
C. Irish
D. Chinese
E. former soldiers

II. Cowboys (p 423)
A. long drive
B. Era’s end

III. Farmers on Great Plains
A. Homestead Act
B. Union Pacific RR
C. Prarie life (p. 427)
D. Inventions
1. barbed wire
2. steel plow
3. windmill
4. McCormick Reaper

IV. Indian “Problem”
A. Bureau of Indian Affairs
B. buffalo
C. Indians Fight Back
1. Sand Creek Massacre
2. Battle of Little Bighorn
3. Wounded Knee

V. Change in policy
A. Dawes Act
B. Failure of Dawes Act