HIS 315L Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Big Business, Anaconda Copper, American Indian Wars
Document Summary
Pull factors of the midwestern and northeastern industrial revolutions. Southern and northern promotion of the new south. The northern focus on anti-corruption and economic expansion. Government support: the homestead act and the railroad act. Homestead act gave any white male that hadn"t fought for the confederacy 160 acres of land, improve it in five years to earn ownership of land. Railroad act: series of acts of congress that promoted the development of the transcontinental railroad in the united states. Big business: anaconda copper mining co. and others. War as first resort rather than last resort. New mining and farming technology; changing attitudes about indian country . The last of the great plains indian wars. The surrender of sitting bull and the end of sioux war. Crazy horse and sitting bull (indian leaders) Railroad expansion led to further tension with indians.
