THE WEST

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THE WEST

• Indian Policy
• Settling the West
• Farmers
• Turners Frontier Thesis

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Native Americans

• Indian Culture and History
• Tribal preservation or integration?
• Great Sioux War of 1865-1867
• Gold miners build the Bozeman Trail
• Indian Peace Commission civilize,
• Black Hills and Oklahoma reservations
• Buffalo Soldiers, Battle of Little Bighorn
• Dawes Act Land distribution of 160 acres
• Buffalo Slaughter
• Opening of Oklahoma 1889
• Return to the reservation system 1934

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Red Cloud Sioux Chief
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Deerskin Shirt
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Battle of Little Bighorn
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Sitting Bull w/ Buffalo Bill
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SETTLEMENT OF THE WEST

• Why did they Go West?
• To own land, farm, mine, ranch, business,
• Escape cities, health, religious freedom
• 1849 Gold Rush 200 m in 4 years,
• 200,000 go to CA, mining, the Or. CA Trail
• Land Grants Homestead Act of 1862
• 160 acres for 10, Railroads
• Wild West territorial governments
• Immigration Exclusion Act of 1882

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Covered Wagon 4 to 6 months,walking 15 hours a
day.
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Panning for Gold
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Goldhill, Nevada
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Farming and Ranching

• Cattle Bonanza The vaqueros
• The cattle drive, Abilene, end of era
• Refrigerated Rail Cars, Barbed wire
• Farming on the Plains 1860 2 m. farms,
• 1900 6 m., Difficult, Surpluses, 1900 40
  farmers.
• The Grange started as social org,
• Political active cooperatives, grain elevators,
• Warehouses, insurance. Root of Alliance
  Populists
• Mechanization reapers, plows, 900 companies

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Cattle drive
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The Frontier Thesis

• Frederick Jackson Turner, 1893
• Frontier closes in 1890
• What effect did the frontier have on American
  culture and society? Why are we different from
  Europe?
• Culture Hard working, individualistic,
  self-reliant, democratic, classless, inventive,
  violent, fiercely protective of private property.