PPT Slide
American Society in the Late 19th Century
America and the Western Frontier
Homestead Act, 1862
The Pony Express!
The Pony Express
Sand Creek Mass- acre
Sand Creek Massacre
http://www.@wavecom.net/philkearny/index.html#Fetterman Battle
Fetterman Massacre
Battle of Little Big Horn
Sioux and Cheyenne Indians
Sioux Leader Sitting Bull
Sitting Bull, Sioux (Lakota) Chief
Gall, leader of the Teton Sioux Indians
George Armstrong Custer
Captain Frederick W. Benteen was sent south to prevent the Indians from escaping
Crazy Horse
Chief Joseph, Nez Perce.
Nez Perce.
Chief Joseph
The Apache, Geronimo
Continued
Dawes Severalty Act
The Battle Of Wounded Knee
Wounded Knee
Some made the transition to the “American Way”, others clung the Indian traditional way of life
Battle of Wounded Knee
Native American Casualty at Wounded Knee
John Wesley Powell
John Wesley Powell http://www.powellmuseum.org/images/MajorPowell-small.jpg
John Wesley Powell http://www.songbird.com/gc/powell.jpg
A miner in the Comstock Lode
The Comstock Lode
The Morgan silver dollar
TEXAS LONGHORNS
Texas Longhorn
TEXAS COWBOYS
Early Cowboys in West
Union Pacific R.R.
Union Pacific Railroad
Golden Spike, 1869
Changes in American Society in the Late 19th Century
Alexander Graham Bell
Bell continued…….
Thomas Edison
Thomas
Edison Inventions -light bulb -phonograph -incandescent electric lamp -starter for automobiles -batteries -more than 1,000 inventions patented
Railroads and “Robber Barons”
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Formed a steamship company in 1829
Vanderbilt
Henry Bessemer
Bessemer Process
Andrew Carnegie
Trusts and Monopolies
Federal Antitrust Acts
Modern Monopolies
Interstate Commerce Commission
Sherman Anti Trust Act
J. P. Morgan
J. Pierpont Morgan
Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. of New York
John D. Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller Cont.
Sergeant’s Portrait of John D. Rockefeller
Andrew Mellon
Boss William Tweed
Tweed
Herbert Spencer 1820-1903
Social Gospel
SOCIAL GOSPEL
WALTER RAUSCHENBUSCH
Jacob A. Riis
Jacob A. Riis books written
Jane Addams
Henry Demarest Lloyd
Henry George
Henry George’s Single Tax
Edward Bellamy
Terence Powderly, Leader of Knights of Labor
KNIGHTS OF LABOR
The Haymarket Riot
Haymarket Riot of 1886 in Chicago
Casualties of the Haymarket Bombing
Anarchists Charged in the Haymarket Incident
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
American Federation of Labor Today
Eugene Debs, 1923
Eugene V. Debs
Eugene Debs, Socialist Party Leader
1894 ARU would not allow its workers to move Pullman cars; supported strike of workers making Pullman cars
Eugene Debs
New Immigration
The Jewish Immigration
Pogroms
ELLIS ISLAND
VIEW OF ELLIS ISLAND
American Protective Association
Winslow Homer
http://search.famsf.org/4d.acgi$Record?33222&=list&=21&=&=and&=30&=2&=keywords&=Yes&=homer%20&=&=
Winslow Homer Returns
“American Impressionism”
“ American Impressionism”
John Singer Sargent
John Singer Sargent “The Daughters of Edward D. Boit” http://mfa.org/collections/8.htm
Http://www.netzone.com/~iplets/wvpics/ dewey.htm
John Dewey (1859-1952)
Progressive Education
Email: houston@harwich.edu
Other information: Slides produced by Mr. Houston's American History classes for local history project