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Todays Essential Question How did diverse groups help to shape both the reality and the myth of the Old West Vocabulary myth widelyheld belief in something that is not true territory what a state usually is before it is officially admitted to the Union ID: 711418

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Lesson 19.3: Life in the West

Today’s Essential Question: How did diverse groups help to shape both the reality and the myth of the Old West?Slide2

Vocabulary

myth – widely-held belief in something that is not trueterritory – what a state usually is before it is officially admitted to the Uniontranscontinental – across an entire continentSlide3

Check for Understanding

What are we going to do today?What was Wyoming before it was a state?What is a transcontinental railroad?Slide4

What We Already Know

Tens of thousands of people poured into California, Colorado, and other western territories where gold or silver had been discovered.Slide5

What We Already Know

When the war with Mexico ended, 80 thousand citizens of Mexico suddenly found themselves living as a minority in a nation with a strange culture, language, and legal system.Slide6

What We Already Know

Women like Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton had worked unsuccessfully for years to win voting rights for women.Slide7

Women in the West

In their letters and diaries, many women recorded the harshness of pioneer life. Others talked about the loneliness.Slide8

Women in the West

While men went to town for supplies or did farm chores with other men, women rarely saw their neighbors.Slide9

Women in the West

Living miles from others, women were their family’s doctors—setting broken bones and delivering babies—as well as cooks.Slide10

Western lawmakers recognized the

contri-butions

women made by giving them more legal rights than women had in the East.

In most territories, women could own property and control their own money.

Women in the WestSlide11

In 1869, Wyoming was the first territory in the nation to give women the vote.

When Wyoming sought statehood in 1890, Congress demanded that the state repeal its woman suffrage law. Women in the WestSlide12

But Wyoming law-makers stood firm and Congress backed down.

By 1900, women had also won the right to vote in Colorado, Utah, and Idaho.

Women in the WestSlide13

Get your whiteboards and markers ready!Slide14

How were women’s contributions to the West recognized by Western lawmakers?

They were given the right to vote before Eastern states did.They were appointed to serve in several territorial governments.

Statues of prominent pioneer women were erected.

They were honored with state holidays in several states.Slide15

The Rise of Western Cities

Cities seemed to grow overnight in the West. Gold and silver strikes made instant cities of places like Denver and San Francisco.

These cities prospered, while much of the area around them remained barely settled.Slide16

The Rise of Western Cities

Miners who flocked to the “Pikes Peak” gold rush of 1859 stopped first in Denver to buy supplies. By 1867, Denver was the capital of Colorado Territory and the state capital when Colorado was admitted into the Union.Slide17

The Rise of Western Cities

The key to Denver’s growth the construction of a railroad link to the transcontinental railroad.

Between 1870 and 1890, its population grew from about 4,800 residents to nearly 107,000.Slide18

The railroads also brought rapid growth to other towns in the West.

Omaha, Nebraska, flourished as a meat processing center for cattle ranches in the area.

Portland, Oregon, became a regional market for fish, grain, and lumber.

The Rise of Western CitiesSlide19

Get your whiteboards and markers ready!Slide20

What factors led to the growth of cities in the West?

Gold and silver strikesTourismExpansion of railroad lines

Introduction of the meat-packing and food processing industries

Publication of Western 'dime novels'

Choose all that are true!Slide21

Mexicanos and Buffalo Soldiers

The Southwest included what are now New Mexico, Texas, Arizona, and California and had been home to Mexicanos, people of Spanish descent whose ancestors had come from Mexico. Slide22

Mexicanos and Buffalo Soldiers

After the Mexican War brought much of the Southwest under U.S. control, English-speaking white settlers began arriving.

These Anglo pioneers were attracted to the Southwest by opportunities in ranching, farming, and mining.

Their numbers grew in the 1880s and 1890s, as railroads connected the region with the rest of the country.Slide23

As American settlers crowded into the South-west, the Mexicanos lost economic and political power.

Many also lost land they claimed through grants from Spain and Mexico, because U.S. courts did not usually recognize these grants.

Mexicanos and Buffalo SoldiersSlide24

In 1866 the U.S. Army created African-American regiments to serve mainly in the West and Southwest.

Nicknamed “buffalo soldiers” by the Indians, African-American troops helped keep the peace on the frontier and fought in campaigns against the Indians.

Mexicanos and Buffalo SoldiersSlide25

Although there were still racial conflicts within the military and among civilians, Army life provided opportunity and a basic education for many African Americans.

Mexicanos and Buffalo SoldiersSlide26

The Myth of the Old West

America’s love affair with the West began just as the cowboy way of life was vanishing in the late 1800s. To most Americans, the West had become a larger-than life place where brave men and women tested themselves against hazards of all kinds and won.Slide27

The Myth of the Old West

“Dime novels” told tales of daring adventure. Even when the hero was a real person like Wyatt Earp, Kit Carson, or “Calamity Jane,” the plots were fiction or exaggerated accounts of real-life incidents.Slide28

Even serious works of fiction still showed little of the drabness of daily life in the West.

White settlers played heroic roles in novels, plays and, later, in movies.

Indians generally appeared as villains, and African Americans were not even mentioned.

The Myth of the Old WestSlide29

“Buffalo Bill” Cody, a buffalo hunter turned showman, brought the West to the rest of the world through his Wild West show.

His show, with its reenactments of frontier life, played before enthusiastic audiences across the country and in Europe.

The Myth of the Old WestSlide30

The myth of the Old West overlooked the contributions of

Mexicanos

and African Americans to cattle ranching.

The railroads would not have been built without Chinese immigrant labor.Slide31

The Real West

Western legends often highlighted the attacks by Native Americans on soldiers or settlers without considering the broken treaties that led to the conflicts.

Even the self-reliant Westerner who tamed needed the help of the government to fight Indians, help build the railroads, and give the free land that drew homesteaders to the West.