The Great American Frontier

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The Great American Frontier
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U.S. Expansion of the West

• The Louisiana Purchase
• Annexation of Texas
• Oregon Territory
• Gadsden Purchase
• Occupation of California

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Territories
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The People of the West

• Removed Native Americans
• Indigenous Indian Tribes
• Spanish Missionaries
• Miners Tradesmen
• Hispanic Population
• The first American cowboy
• Chinese Population
• Anti-Chinese Sentiment
• Chinese Exclusion Act
• Mormons
• Brigham Young

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Great American Desert vs. New Frontier

• The East begins to move to the West
• Expansion of the Railroads
• Homestead Act
• Oklahoma Land Rush
• The Timber Culture Act
• The Desert Land Act
• The Political Atmosphere of the West
• Territories to Statehood

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East meets West The completion of the
Transcontinental Railroad 1869
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Great Oklahoma Land Rush
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Sod Homestead of the 1880s
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The Economy of the West

• Mining
• Boomtown to Ghostown
• RanchingCowboy Culture
• Cowboys
• Cattle King
• Range Wars
• Commercial Farming
• Obstacles
• Fences
• Joseph Glidden I.L. Ellwood
• Water
• Reverse migration

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Farming as an International Business

• Cash Crops
• Transportation Communication Advances
• Rags or riches

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Farmers Grievances

• The Farmer and the Railroad
• The Farmer and the Bank
• Price controls
• The average life of the western farmer

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Romance of the West

• Literature Art
• Frederick Jackson Turner
• Albert Bierstadt Thomas Moran
• The Virginian
• Mark Twain
• Tourism
• Resort Hotels
• Entertainment
• Wild West Co.

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Frederick Jackson Turner
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Buffalo Bill Cody
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Invading Indian Territory

• Treaties Reservations
• Indian Peace Commission
• Bureau of Indian Affairs
• Extermination of the Buffalo Herds
• Buffalo hunters

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Widespread rebellion

• Battle of Little Bighorn
• Col. Custer
• Sitting Bull
• Crazy Horse
• Nez Perce
• Chief Joseph
• Apaches
• Geronimo
• Battle at Wounded Knee
• Ghostdance
• Dawes Act

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Depiction of Battle of Little Bighorn June 25,
1876
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Chief BigFoot
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Wounded Knee MassacreDecember 29, 1890
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General Custer
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Geronimo
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Chief Joseph
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Sitting Bull