Old West

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Old West

• Myth Legends v. Reality
• Key Western Figures
• Key Indian Leaders
• Outlaws
• Why is this period of time in our history, so
  familiar to all generations of Americans?

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Alexis De Tocqueville
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Tocqueville

• (July 29, 1805 April 16, 1859) was a French
  political thinker and historian best known for
  his Democracy in America (appearing in two
  volumes 1835 and 1840) and The Old Regime and
  the Revolution (1856). In both of these works, he
  explored the effects of the rising equality of
  social conditions on the individual and the state
  in western societies.

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Tocqueville

• The Americans of the United States, more humane,
  more moderate, more respectful of right and
  legality, never bloody, are more profoundly
  destructive and it is impossible to doubt that
  before a hundred years have passed there will
  no longer be in North America, not just a single
  nation, but a single man belonging to the most
  remarkable of the Indian races. ...

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Tom Torlino Reforming
Process
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Dawes Act
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Dawes Act

• Congressman Henry Dawes, author of the act, once
  expressed his faith in the civilizing power of
  private property with the claim that to be
  civilized was to "wear civilized
  clothes...cultivate the ground, live in houses,
  ride in Studebaker wagons, send children to
  school, drink whiskey and own property."

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Helen Hunt Jackson

• How did her book a Century of Dishonor impact
  the American People?
• Is there any other literary works this book
  compares with?
• Why is the author so unknown in todays day and
  age?

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Helen Hunt Jackson
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Greatest athlete of the 20th Century

• Jim Thorpe

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In the Name of ProgressWhite Mans Perspective

• Homestead Act- 1862
• 160 acres of land
• How many years did the Homesteader have to live
  on the land for ownership? Five years
• Key points
• 1.25 an acre Total 200.00
• Improvements to the land
• Created a land ownership society

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Homestead Act
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Homestead Act
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Railroad
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Pacific Railway Act of 1862

• All earth, stone, timber and other materials are
  the property of the rail company for the purposes
  of building the rail line.
• All Indian land claims will be extinguished as
  soon as possible.
• Five miles of land on each side of the tracks is
  under the control of the rail company.

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Transcontinental Railroad

• Union Pacific tracks joined those of the Central
  Pacific Railroad.
• May 10, 1869
• Promontory, Utah
• Golden Spike
• Location where it linked up to connect the East
  with the West

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Inventions

• Barbed Wire-Joseph Glidden
• Steel Plow-John Deere
• Steel Wind Mills
• Reaper-Cyrus McCormick
• How do these Inventions change the West?

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Joseph Glidden - Impact
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Steel Plow- John Deere
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McCormick Sail Reaper
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Reaper
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Water pumping wind mill
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Farm Products

• Wheat
• Corn
• Potatoes
• Barley
• Flax
• Oats
• Sugar beets

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Exodusters
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Dances with Wolves
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Buffalo
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We Kill the Golden Goose

• What is the Golden Goose?
• Millions wiped out
• Who is Buffalo Jones?
• Caught seven buffalo calves and saved the buffalo
  from extinction
• Statistics
• 1873-1.5 million/1874- 158,583/six million

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Buffalo Hunt
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Buffalo
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Buffalo
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Buffalo
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Fort Laramie Treaty

• Citation Treaty with the Sioux-Brule, Oglala,
  Miniconjou, Yanktonai, Hunkpapa, Blackfeet,
  Cuthead, Two Kettle, San Arcs, and Santee-and
  Arapaho, 4/29/1868 General Records of the United
  States Government Record Group 11 National
  Archives.
• In this treaty, signed on April 29, 1868, between
  the U.S. Government and the Sioux Nation, the
  United States recognized the Black Hills as part
  of the Great Sioux Reservation, set aside for
  exclusive use by the Sioux people.

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Legends Outlaws
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Indian Leaders
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Military Leaders
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Causes of the Indian Wars

• Clash of world views
• Corrupt Indian bureau
• Cattle take over the land
• Scandals/ bribes
• Massacres Sand Creek / Wounded Knee

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Causes of Indian Wars

• Discovery of gold
• Land taken by miners, farmers, railroads
• Broken promises/treaties promises of resources
• Killing buffalo Indians food source
• Reservation system a failure

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Custers Last Stand

• Montana
• The Little Bighorn River, called the Greasy Grass
  by Native Americans, was the site of the 1876
  battle known as "Custer's Last Stand," when
  troops of the Seventh Cavalry under George
  Armstrong Custer were destroyed while attempting
  a surprise attack on Lakota chief Sitting Bull's
  encampment.

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Custers Last Stand

• Montana

Montana
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John Wayne
The Duke


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Buffalo Bill Cody
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General George A. Custer
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Battle of Little Bighorn