Goal Four

0        Goal 4

0        The Great West and Western Development

0        Motivation for Westward Movement

0        Manifest Destiny

(Rap: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qrjg9ulR-xo )

0        James K. Polk “Manifest Destiny”= God’s idea that the US should extend from the Atlantics Pacific Ocean (Regardless of Indians/ Mexicans or anybody else)

0        Homestead Act 1862

0        To encourage people to move westward

0        granted 160 acres of land but you had to stay on the land for 5yrs.

0        Mormon Migration

0         Joseph Smith made the Book of Mormons

0        They are persecuted so Brigham Young (prophet of God) led the Mormon exodus to Salt Lake City, Utah

0        Migrated Westward along the Oregon Trail which consisted of a religious community that plays a major role in the settling of the West

0        Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- day Saints in Fayette, New York by Joseph Smith and five associates in 1830

0        a railroad line linking the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the United States, completed in 1869 at Promontory Point, Utah

0        1860’s Union Pacific and Central Pacific in a race to lay track

0        Labor done mostly by Irish and Chinese – some African Americans

0        By 1869 there were 5 transcontinental railroads

0        Dawes Act 1887
 Helen Hunt Jackson

0        Passed by Congress to “Americanize” the Native Americans

0        Act broke up reservation land and redistributed it to Native Americans

0        She exposed the governments many broken promises in her book A Century of Dishonor

0        Populism

0        Farmers v. Railroads

0        Populist farmers wanted inflation; lower railroad rates; and silver

0        Farmers saw railroads as monopolies because they controlled the railroad rates.

0        Munn v. Illinois. Is a farmer’s win (states cant control the railroad prices)

0        Wabash v. Illinois that says that they (states) cant regulate railroad prices. ICC (interstate Commerce Act controls prices).

0        Populism (cont.)

0        Bimetallism: Gold v. Silver

0        William Jennings Bryan- “Cross of Gold Speech” – fighting the gold standard

0        Populist Party Platform

0        Grange Framers Alliance Populist party

0        Direct election of senators, progressive tax, standard work day, women getting right to vote

0        Failed to become third party because it did not expand to groups other than farmers  (McKinley)