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THE WEST. THE WEST. The American West in American Memory. THE WEST. Historians and the West Frederick Jackson Turner—The Frontier Thesis The New Western Historians. THE WEST. Western Settlement The ideal: the Homestead Act - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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THE WEST• The American West in American
Memory
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• Historians and the West– Frederick Jackson Turner—The Frontier
Thesis– The New Western Historians
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• Western Settlement– The ideal: the Homestead Act – Other claims on the land: The Morrill Act
and the Pacific Railway Act• The transcontinental railroad
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Exodusters Benjamin Singleton
Southern black migration
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• Foreign immigration– From Europe– From Mexico– From Asia
• Japanese to Hawaii and west coast of the United States
• Chinese to west coast of the United States– 300,000 immigrants came in the late
1800s
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Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
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• Western Economy– Mining
Silver Mining – Nevada,late 1860s
Copper Smelt – Butte, MT
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– Cattle
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– Farming
Sod House - Nebraska, 1886
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• The Last Settlement – Oklahoma (1889)
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• The Great Plains Indians– Mounted nomads– Numerous distinct tribes
• Sioux• Cheyenne• Arapaho• Comanche• Crow
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• Removal of the Great Plains Indians – Johnson v. M’Intosh (1823)– Ft. Laramie Treaty (1851)
• Reservation system– Pike’s Peak Gold Rush
(1858)– Chivington or Sand Creek
massacre (1864)
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THE WEST–Ft. Laramie Treaty (1868)
General George Custer
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Crazy Horse
Battle of the Little Bighorn
Sitting Bull
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• The Apaches and the last of the Indian Wars
Geronimo
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• Efforts to Assimilate the Great Plains Indians
• Friends of the Indian– Indian schools
• Dawes Severalty Act (1887)
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Wovaka Ghost Dance
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Massacre at Wounded Knee (1890)