America after the Civil War
U.S. History before 1877
Womens Rights Movement
Splits
National Woman
Suffrage Association, 1869
– Founders:
Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
– Opposed
15th Amendment unless women were included
– Proposed
amendment for womans right to vote
American Woman
Suffrage Association, 1869
– Founder:
Lucy Stone
– Supported
15th Amendment
– Worked
at state level for woman suffrage
Barriers to westward
expansion
Buffalo
herds and Indians
Lack
of wood
Lack
of transportation
Lack
of rainfall
Opening the West to
settlement
The sad, bloody
business of Indian war
– Migrants
to Oregon and to California & Colorado goldfields
– Use
and destroy resources Indians need
– Ambitious
politicians attack peaceful Indians
– Many
broken treaties
– Indians
fight back desperately but futilely
Crescendo
of violence, 1860-1890
Rising market in
buffalo hides
– Hunters
methodically wipe out the buffalo
The decade of cattle drives
Large herds of
cattle in Texas after Civil War
Railheads push west
– To
Abilene, Kansas, 1867; then Wichita and Dodge City
Cattle
driven up the plains
Shipped to Chicago
packing plants
Technology brings the
farmer
Barbed wire solves
the wood problem, 1874
Windmills solve the
water problem
Railroads solve the
transportation problem
Farmers in distress
Homestead Act and
railroad grants attract farmers
Greater acreage +
mechanization = rising yields
The South expands
cotton production
Result: drop in
prices
Railroad rate
schedules high for farmers
Farmers hurting:
middlemen profiting
Southerners forced
to be tenants, sharecroppers
Southern Sharecroppers
Farmers organize
Grange movement,
est. 1867
– Fraternal
farmer organization
– Social
purposes, then political action
State granger laws
regulating RRs, grain warehouses
One hundred years a nation:
1876