open range

Examples of open range in the following topics:

• The End of the Open Range

  • The open range came to an end due to the overgrazing of cattle.
  • The prairie and desert lands of what is today Mexico and the western United States, were well-suited to "open range" grazing.
  • Hence, the age of the open range was gone and large cattle drives were over.
  • The end of the open range was not brought about by a reduction in land due to crop farming, but by overgrazing.
  • Outline the factors that contributed to the rise and fall of the open range

• Ranchers, Cowboys, and Cattle

  • The prairie and desert lands of what is today Mexico and the western United States were well suited to "open range" grazing.
  • The subject of these conflicts is the control of "open range" land.
  • In the north, overgrazing stressed the open range, leading to insufficient winter forage for the cattle and starvation.
  • Hence, the age of the open range was gone, and large cattle drives were over.
  • The end of the open range was not brought about by a reduction in land due to crop farming, but by overgrazing.

• Range Wars

  • Range wars occurred throughout the American West throughout the late nineteenth century.
  • The subject of these armed conflicts was control of the open range as farmers and ranchers argued over water rights or grazing rights.
  • Famous range wars included the Lincoln County War, the Pleasant Valley War, the Mason County War, and the Johnson County Range War.
  • Meanwhile, young newcomers to the county, John Tunstall and Alexander McSween, opened a competing store in 1876.
  • Assess the significance of range wars in late nineteenth century America

• "Poor Whites"

  • Wetherington suggests that their localism and racism dovetailed with a republican ideology founded on Jeffersonian notions of an "economically independent yeomanry sharing common interests. " During the war plain folk raised subsistence crops and vegetables and relied on a free and open range to hunt hogs.

• The Limits of Progressivism

  • For instance, national Progressive leaders such as Roosevelt argued for increased federal regulation to coordinate big business practices while others, like Wilson, promised to legislate for open competition.
  • At the local, municipal, and state level, various Progressive reformers advocated for disparate goals that ranged as wide as prison reform, education, government reorganization, urban improvement, prohibition, female suffrage, birth control, improved working conditions, labor reform, and child labor reform.
  • Furthermore, despite the Bull Moose Party's declaration of a Progressive Party Platform, the American public viewed it more as coalition of fervent Roosevelt supporters, rather than any comprehensive party platform that accounted for the range of Progressive concerns.

• Principles of Freedom

  • Second, in each colony a wide range of public and private business was decided by elected bodies, especially assemblies and county governments.
  • Unlike Europe, where the royal court, aristocratic families, and the established church were in control, the American political culture was open to merchants, landlords, petty farmers, artisans, Anglicans, Presbyterians, Quakers, Germans, Scotch Irish, Yankees, Yorkers, and many other identifiable groups.

• Colonial Government

  • For instance, elected bodies, specifically the assemblies and county governments, directly determined the development of a wide range of public and private business.
  • Unlike Europe, where aristocratic families and established churches dominated the political sphere, American political culture was relatively open to economic, social, religious, ethnic, and geographical interests (although still excluding the participation of American Indians, women, and African Americans).

• Commercial Farmers

  • Cotton was generally produced on plantations ranging from South Carolina westward, and production relied upon slave labor, thus greatly strengthening the institution of slavery in the South.
  • At the same time, U.S. industrialization and urbanization in the North opened up lucrative domestic markets for American farmers.

• The Transformed National Economy

  • Large iron ore mines opened in the Lake Superior region of the upper Midwest.
  • Large copper and silver mines opened, followed by lead mines and cement factories.
  • Often their success lay in seeing the long-range potential for a new service or product, as John D.

• The New Feminism

  • Despite the controversy with labeling these interconnected movements, it is clear that after women's suffrage was secured, feminists continued to fight for equality that included a wider range of issues: sexuality, family, the workplace, reproductive rights, de facto inequalities, and official legal inequalities.
  • On October 16, 1916, she opened the Brownsville clinic in Brooklyn: it was an immediate success, with over 100 women visiting on the first day.
  • A few days after opening, an undercover policewoman purchased a cervical cap at the clinic, and Sanger was arrested.
  • The clinic was shut down, and no other birth control clinics were opened in the United States until the 1920s.