The West - Story
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- The West: The Story of How it actually was.
- By: Carter, Duke, and Caleb
- You American's have the right to take all the land West of here.
- Manifest Destiny
- Do you want 160 acres of free land?
- Homestead Act
- YAY!, I get free land because I am a U.S citizen
- This is shaft mining, it can be very dangerous and toxic
- Aquifers
- Shaft Mining
- Tenant Farming
- This is Hydraulic Mining, it puts mercury and water and pollutes environment.
- Hydraulic Mining
- This is Placer mining, it can disrupt river habitat.
- Placer Mining
- This is a Sluices mining sifter, its safe but not time efficent.
- Sluices Mining
- Cooperatives
- Gold standard is a system where almost all of the nations set the value of their currencies in terms of a certain amount of gold or linked their currencies to those of nations that did.
- Gold Standard
- Free Silver Movment
- Free silver movment was an unsuccessful campaign for unlimitage coinage of silver
- Exodusters
- The mass black migration to Kansas from the South became known as the "Great Exodus," and those who took part in it were known as "exodusters."
- Dry Farming
- The goal of dry farming was to increase soil absorption and preservation of moisture by limiting or even removing runoff and evaporation during dry weather.
- Reservoir
- A Reservoir is an artifical lake where water is stored.
- Aquifers are underground layers of rock that are highly saturated with water and can be pumped or brought to the surface by natural springs.
- This is Tenant Farming, I am to poor to buy one, so I will rent one.
- FOR RENT
- Thanks for agreeing to, letting me use your crops.
- Sharecroppers
- Were using all of our money together to buy crops in bulk since its cheaper.
- The populist party helps farmers suffering in hard times
- Who: Cheyenne and Arapaho people by the us army in the American indian warsWhat: Native people wanted to protect their land use.When: November 29, 1864Why: The long battle for control of eastern Colorado's Great Plains was a contributing factor in the Sand Creek Massacre.
- Sand Creek Massacre
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