Barbed

barbed wire

  • cattle ranching

    cattle ranching
    primary a small scale operation in the erly 1800s the cattle rancers would drive the cattle around so they could graze them and along the way they would buy and sell them.
  • Extinction of buffalo in 1800

    Extinction of buffalo in 1800
    The american Buffalo were hunted to extintion in the early 1800s when settlers took trains and sat on the roofs of them and shot the buffalo for fun and they just left the meat to rot only taking the hide and horns they would do this in huge bands of people.
  • Jesse Woodson James

    Jesse Woodson James
    Jesse James was born into a hard workind family in Clay County Missouri, where he had 2 siblings and his father was a sucssesful farmer who helped found william jewel collage jesse was 3 years old when his father died.
  • GOLD FEVER

    GOLD FEVER
    Gold was first discoverd in california January 24,1848 while over seeing constrution on a sawmill James Marshel seen something shiney in the water and it was gold at Sutter Creek near Coloma California.
  • Homestead act

    Homestead act
    It was a way the government could sell land and have it settled by imgrants and settlers and the us would get paid for the land but the settlers dident have to pay much for the land.
  • Lucien B. Smith

    Lucien B. Smith
    Lucien B. Smith created barbed wire in 1867 to restrain cattle better and to keep out cattle thifes.hon Warns Gates promoted the use of barbed wire and prooved the wire could keep cattle safe and in the corral.
  • Transcontinental Railroad

    Transcontinental Railroad
    the first transcontinental railroard or the pacifac railroad was 1,907 miles long it connected thhe east coast of us to the wwest coast of teh us.
  • Dawes act

    Dawes act
    Dawes act was made so induviduel could buy indian native land and have a clear title of the land but they would still have to deal with the indians becouse they would not like them being on there land so alot of settlers were killed by indians.