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Jan 04, 2016
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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
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)
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)
Wovaka Ghost Dance
Massacre at Wounded Knee (1890)