Transcript The South and West Transformed

The South and West Transformed
Chapter 3, Section 3
New South
• Mixed economy
• Started to develop manufacturing
– Alabama steel producing
• Did not grow as fast as the North
– Had to borrow from the North
– What were some other problems the South
encountered?
Difficult Times
• Attack of the Boll
Weevil
• Sharecropping –
landowners controlled
crops and homes
• South stripped African
Americans of Rights
CHART
The Sharecropping System
Clashes with American Indians
• Indian Removal Act – move to Oklahoma
– Stay… be killed
• Settlers decimated buffalo herds
• Native Resistance
– 39 Dakota Tribe hanged
– Custer’s Last Stand
– Surrender of Chief Joseph
Assimilation
• Become part of the main culture
• Dawes Act: divide reservations to force
assimilation
The West
• Transcontinental Railroad
– Granted 200 million acres of land
• Open Range – gov. owned grassland
– Ship steer via train
Assignment
• P. 83 #1 and 2
• P. 86 #1 and 4