New Frontiers:

Westward Expansion

and Industrial Growth

1865–1877

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Change and Violence on the Frontier

Railroads and Settlers Move West

 

Pete Seeger“The Buffalo Skinners”

Podcast from American Industrial Ballads

 Notes

Slaughter of the Buffalo

American Indians and Mexican Americans Fight for Autonomy

African Americans Seek Opportunity in the West

Industrialization and the Working Class

The Rise of Big Business

The Growth of Cities and a National Industrial Workforce

The Spread of Immigration

An American Labor Movement Emerges

Workers Organize

Racism Stalls the Labor Movement

Working Women, Unions, and the Vote

The Panic of 1873

Workers Renew Demands for Economic and Political Power

The Great Uprising of 1877

Lectures at an End

HIST 1301 Review on Monday