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Essential Questions

Essential Questions. What national issues emerged in the process of closing the western frontier? Why does the West hold such an important place in the American imagination? In what ways is the West romanticized in American culture?. Tensions. Native Americans.

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  1. Essential Questions What national issues emerged in the process of closing the western frontier? Why does the West hold such an important place in the American imagination? In what ways is the West romanticized in American culture?

  2. Tensions Native Americans Buffalo HuntersRailroadsU. S. Government Cattlemen Sheep Herders Ranchers Farmers

  3. Tensions EthnicMinorities Nativists Big Business Interests [mining, timber]Local Govt. OfficialsFarmersBuffalo Hunters Environmentalists Lawlessness of the Frontier “Civilizing” Forces [The “Romance” of the West]

  4. Railroad Construction

  5. “The Big Four” Railroad Magnates Charles Crocker Collis Huntington Mark Hopkins Leland Stanford

  6. Promontory Point, UT(May 10, 1869)

  7. The Bronc BusterFrederick Remington

  8. Colt .45 Revolver God didn’t make men equal.Colonel Colt did!

  9. Legendary Gunslingers & Train Robbers Jesse James Billy the Kid

  10. Dodge City Peace Commission, 1890

  11. Prospecting

  12. Mining Centers: 1900

  13. Land Use: 1880s

  14. New AgriculturalTechnology Steel Plow [“Sod Buster”] “Prairie Fan”Water Pump

  15. Barbed Wire Joseph Glidden

  16. The Range Wars SheepHerders CattleRanchers

  17. Regional Population Distributionby Race: 1900

  18. The Buffalo Soldiers on the Great Plains

  19. The “Chinese Question” • Exclusion Act (1882) - Oriental Exclusion Act - Chinese Exclusion Act

  20. African American & ChinesePopulations:1880-1900

  21. Frontier Settlements: 1870-1890

  22. The Realty--A Pioneer’s Sod House, SD

  23. Frederick Jackson Turner The Significance of the Frontier in American Society(1893)

  24. Newlands Reclamation Act (1902) Francis Newlands

  25. The Battle of Little Big Horn1876 Gen. GeorgeArmstrong Custer Chief Sitting Bull

  26. Chief Joseph I will fight no more forever! Nez Percé tribal retreat (1877)

  27. Geronimo, Apache Chief: Hopeless Cause

  28. Helen Hunt Jackson A Century of Dishonor (1881)

  29. Dawes Severalty Act (1887):Assimilation Policy Carlisle Indian School, PA

  30. Legendary Female Western Characters Calamity Jane Annie Oakley

  31. Destruction of the Buffalo Herds The near extinction of the buffalo.

  32. Yellowstone National Park First national park established in 1872.

  33. National Parks

  34. Conservation Movement John Muir With President Theodore Roosevelt

  35. Sierra Club Founded in 1892

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