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What are the Economic Stages?
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The Primary Stage
The Secondary Stage and the Tertiary Stage |
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What was the Primary Stage?
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the first stage were non-permanent people wanting to take the natural resources
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What is the Secondary Stage?
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People who would remain to assemble their products.
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Examples of the Secondary Stage are?
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The construction industry produces houses, other buildings, and roads.
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In the secondary stage its inputs include ______________ manufactured by the ________________industry.
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lumber
forest |
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Who was heading West?
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A. Trappers and Mountain Men
B. Miners C. Ranchers D. Farmers and Sodbusters |
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These folks were interested only in natural resources of the land...
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Trappers and Mountain men
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Who broke trails and made maps?
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Trappers and Mountain men
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Often took the life style of Indians
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Trappers and Mountain men
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Not interested in settling an area...
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Trappers and Mountain men
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Worked and lived lonely lives
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Trappers and Mountain men
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Trappers and Mountain men broke the _________ and made _________.
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trails
maps |
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Trappers and Mountain men often took the __________ style of ___________.
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life
Indians |
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Trappers and Mountain men were not ____________ in settling an __________.
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interested
area |
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Trappers and Mountain men ___________ and ___________ lonely ____________.
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worked
lived lives |
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Who? With the discovery of large deposits of Gold and Silver men especially young men, former Confederate soldiers and former slaves headed West to gather the riches.
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Miners
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Who? 1849 California Gold Rush
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Miners
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Who? 1858 the Comstock Silver lode discovered by Henry Comstock in Neveda
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Miners
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Who? This activity grew "Boom" towns like Virginia City, Neveda
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Miners
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Who? Very little formal law
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Miners
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Who? This introduced ladies and Saloons to the Old West
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Miners
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Who? Wild business turned into manufacturing
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Miners
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Miners with the discovery of large deposits of _______ and __________ men especially young men, former ____________ soldiers and former __________ headed _________ to gather the riches
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gold
silver Confederate slaves West |
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___________ California Gold Rush
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1849
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____________ the Comstock Silver lode discovered by Henry Comstock in ____________
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1858
Neveda |
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Grew ___________ towns like Virginia City, _____________
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Boom
Neveda |
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Miners had very little __________ ____.
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formal
law |
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miners introduced _________ and ________ to the Old West.
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ladies
saloons |
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wild business turned into ______________
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manufacturing
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Who? Many former Confederates and former slaves moved West to escape the Military Districts
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Ranchers
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Who? This started the Cattle Town phase of western settling.
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Ranchers
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Who? With the Economic Depression of 1876 and the used up soil in the East, many eastern farmers headed West and settled in an area sold to them by a slick talking salesman, or when their money ran out.
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Farmers and Sodbusters
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Who? Built their homes from the closest material in the prairie it was sod
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Farmers and Sodbusters
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Who? Like the Oregon Trail and Santa Fe most trails followed rivers for water. This region is very dry and water precious
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Farmers and Sodbusters
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With the _____________ _____________
of 1876 and the used up soil in the __________ many eastern farmers headed _____________ and settled in an area sold to them by a slick talking salesman or when _________________. |
Economic Depression
East West their money ran out. |
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Farmers and Sodbusters _________ their homes from the closest ____________ in the prairie it was __________.
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built
material sod |
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This was the time whe God and the _______ went ___________, and new __________ began to take ___________.
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Law
West states Shape |
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Like the _________________ and ___________ most trails followed _____________ for ___________.
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Oregon Trail
Santa Fe rivers water |
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What were the three influences to Westward movement?
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The Civil War 1861 to 1865
The Great numbers of Irish and German immigrants And the improvements of Transportation (Rail Travel) and Communications |
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The Civil War _____________ to __________
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1861
1865 |
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The Great ___________ of ___________ and ________________ immigrants
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numbers
Irish German |
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The improvements of _____________ and _________________.
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Transportation
Communications |
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The Civil War cost America ____________ dead young men.
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600,000
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The Civil War left thousands more _________________, ____________ and __________.
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homeless
broke bitter |
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Who were the Hoe-Boys _HOBO's?
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The restless ones who climbed on trains or rode horses to the West
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During the Civil war there were no ____________ to speak of and there was some ____________.
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laws
hope |
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Name 4 ways of transporting people, crops and goods?
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1. horse
2. wagon 3. sail boat 4. foot |
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Transportation was __________ to _____________.
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slow
impossible |
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The steam engine was developed in ________.
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1825
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The first practical uses came later in the steam powered __________ and steam driven ____________.
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railroads
ships |
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We needed to subdue the ____________.
By _________ we had. |
Native tribes
1893 |
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We needed to expand across the __________________.
By _____________ we did. |
entire nation
1869 |
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We needed access for ____________.
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building
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We needed money and cheap labor to _________________.
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build
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We needed leaders to guide our
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industrial fortunes.
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Subsidies is ____________ and _________ of land given by both the ______________ and ___________ governments.
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financial aid
grants federal state |
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It was argued by railroad owners that since the construction of railroads benefits the whole country then it should...
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1. Receive free public land
2. Be exempt from federal and state taxes 3. receive money from the government to help with expenses |
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The federal government granted the railroads over 130,000,000 acres of _______________.
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federal lands
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The central Pacific had employed over 10,000 ___________ workers while the Union Pacific hired ________ and __________ workers.
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Chinese
Black Irish |
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By 1883 two more transcontinental railroads connected the __________ to the ___________.
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East
West |
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By 1833 two more transcontinental railroads connected the _________ to the ___________.
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East
West |
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The expansion of the railroads lead to the _____________________ in all industries.
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Mushroom effect
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The mushroom Effect had ____________ moving _________ found travel _________.
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settlers
West faster |
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Industry grew new _______.
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towns
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____________ and ___________ needed to be transported.
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Coal
Steel |
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Steam requires ___________.
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coal
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Steel requires __________________.
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smelting furnaces
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Rails and rail cars along with the many accessories need steel.
1. Steel needs ___________. 2. __________ needs to be mined. 3. Mines need _____________. |
iron ore
Iron ore Miners |
