The New South and the Trans-Mississippi West

Study Guide

Define the “New South.”

Who was Henry W. Grady?

3 Points of Grady’s famous speech.

How might we assess Grady’s points concerning Economics and race relations?

What were the three (3) economical and industrial advancements in the South?

Read up on Share Cropping and Tenant Farming.

What were the three (3) big empires that arose in the West?

Who are Stephen H. Long and Charles Dana Wilbur? What was their significance?

Who is Frederick Jackson Turner and what was the essence of his “Frontier Thesis?”

What does folklore and tradition say about the Cowboy? What was the true demographic?

Know about the reality and the myths of cattle towns.

Be familiar with Cowboy labor patterns and organization.

Be familiar with the Indian Wars, and important names such as Custer, red Cloud and Black Kettle—Chivington and Fetterman.

How did the Government respond to the Indian crisis on the Plains?

What horrendous event signaled the end of the Indian wars?

Look in book at the following pages as a corollary to the slides and notes:

Southern Industry and Life, pp. 500-505.

Indian Wars and Government respons, pp. 511-513.

Transcontinental railroad and the cattle Kingdom, pp. 520-521

Wild West Myth, p. 528.