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THE WEST

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

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THE WEST

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  1. THE WEST

  2. THE WEST • The American West in American Memory

  3. THE WEST • Historians and the West • Frederick Jackson Turner—The Frontier Thesis • The New Western Historians

  4. THE WEST Western Settlement The ideal: the Homestead Act Other claims on the land: The Morrill Act and the Pacific Railway Act The transcontinental railroad

  5. THE WEST Southern black migration Benjamin Singleton Exodusters

  6. THE WEST • 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

  7. Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)

  8. THE WEST • Western Economy • Mining Copper Smelt – Butte, MT Silver Mining – Nevada, late 1860s

  9. THE WEST • Cattle

  10. THE WEST • Farming Sod House - Nebraska, 1886

  11. THE WEST • The Last Settlement – Oklahoma (1889)

  12. THE WEST • The Great Plains Indians • Mounted nomads • Numerous distinct tribes • Sioux • Cheyenne • Arapaho • Comanche • Crow

  13. THE WEST • 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)

  14. THE WEST • Ft. Laramie Treaty (1868) General George Custer

  15. THE WEST Crazy Horse Sitting Bull Battle of the Little Bighorn

  16. THE WEST • The Apaches and the last of the Indian Wars Geronimo

  17. THE WEST • Efforts to Assimilate the Great Plains Indians • Friends of the Indian • Indian schools • Dawes Severalty Act (1887)

  18. Wovaka Ghost Dance

  19. Massacre at Wounded Knee (1890)

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