This is the first PowerPoint of the year...Reconstruction and Expansion

1. State Standards 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4

2. Reconstruction
 Civil War is over!
 How do deal with the
South after the Civil War?
 Radical Republicans
 Hard on the South
 Slow readmission to the
Union and Maintain Troops
in the South
 President Andrew Johnson
 Wants to continue what
President Lincoln started
 Policy of generosity towards
the South

3. Reconstruction.
 President Andrew
Johnson
 Johnson wanted to
ignore Congress and
not punish the South
 Articles of
impeachment are voted
on
 Impeached by the South
 Senate fails to convict him
 Results in him not being
impeached

4. Reconstruction..
 1877
 Northern troops are removed from the South
 Local Southern governments take over
 Enact laws which segregated blacks and whites and kept
African Americans from becoming involved in society

5. GO WEST!
Rocky Great
Mountains Plains

6. GO WEST!.
 Reasons to GO WEST
1. Mining
 Gold, Silver, Mining Towns
 Wild West
2. Cattle Kingdom
 Open Range
 Barbed Wire
 Makes it easier for settlers to contain their cattle
3. Farming on the Plains
 Homestead Act
 Each adult head of household given land if he or she lived on and
developed that land for five years
 Convinced people to settle the West

7. Agriculture and Ranching Post Civil War
COTTON , TOBACCO, RICE– SOUTHEAST
CATTLE- WEST
CORN & WHEAT- MIDWEST

8. Transcontinental Railroad
 Railroad
 People began moving
West by way of the
railroad
 As more railroads were
built their became more
need for mining coal
 This is because coal
powered the steam engine
 Boom Towns
 Railroad is KING

9. Transcontinental Railroad.
 1862
 Pacific Railway Act
 Railroads given federal
lands to sell if they build
railroad
 Land could be sold for a
profit to settlers
 Central Pacific Railroad
Company
 Starts in
Sacramento, California
 Union Pacific Railroad
Company
 Starts in Omaha, Nebraska

11. Building the Railroad
 Central Pacific Railroad
 Used Chinese
Immigrants to build
their part
 Worked harder and for
less than Americans

12. Building the Railroad.
 Union Pacific Railroad
 Used many veterans of
the Civil War to build
their part
 Company involved in
many scandals (Credit
Mobilier)
 AMC’s show Hell On
Wheels

14. Transcontinental Railroad.
 Promontory, Utah
 May 10, 1869
 Transcontinental
Railroad completed
 Allows goods, cattle, and
farm products to crisscross
the country

16. Railroads develop quickly, 11 Years later