14.+The+Development+of+the+West+in+the+late+Nineteenth+Century


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 * [[image:rotating gif.gif width="64" height="64"]]For more material on westward expansion and its impacts on Native Americans, see United States History II.4 **


 * [|The Battle of the Little Bighorn] from the National Park Service presents an overview of this pivotal encounter between American troops and native tribes.


 * Anglo-Apache Conflicts, 1861-1886

**Women's Rights**
The Image to the right is called "The Age of Brass or the Triumphs of Woman's rights", an 1869 lithograph print published by Currier and Ives satirizing the consequences of giving women the right to vote.

The Territory of Wyoming was the first to grant women the right to vote in 1869.

[|Women's Suffrage: Why the West First?] is a lesson plan that explores the reasons why most western states granted women suffrage prior to the passage of the 19th Amendment.

See **Dramatic Event on the Gunfight at the O. K. Corral** for information about the cattle business and cowboy culture and conflicts between urban and rural interests