Race, Regionalism, and Government Policy: Western Settlement and the Plains Indians.

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Race, Regionalism, and Government Policy: Western Settlement and the Plains Indians

Defining Our Terms: The “West” (1870s-90s) “The West”

Frederick Jackson Turner and Western History (1893) Individualism Crucial

Frederick Jackson Turner and Western History (1893) Individualism Crucial Frontier Experience Molded American Democracy

Frederick Jackson Turner and Western History (1893) Individualism Crucial Frontier Experience Molded American Democracy Pragmatic Political Tradition & American Exceptionalism

Was Turner Right? Homestead Act of 1862 More Equal Distribution of Wealth in Newly Settled Areas “Equality in Manners” (No 1 st or 2 nd Class) Sense of Greater Democracy in West (Women’s Suffrage)

Did West Fit Turner’s Model? Railroads, Land Grants, and Big Business.

Did West Fit Turner’s Model? Railroads, Land Grants, and Big Business. Western Agriculture & Cattle Business

Did West Fit Turner’s Model? Railroads, Land Grants, and Big Business. Ag. &Cattle Business Mining

Total War and Settling the “Empty Landscape” Significant Opposition: Little Bighorn (1876) and Chief Joseph (1877)

Total War and Settling the “Empty Landscape” Significant Opposition: Little Bighorn (1876) and Chief Joseph (1877) Railroads and Total War

Total War and Settling the “Empty Landscape” Significant Opposition: Little Bighorn (1876) and Chief Joseph (1877) Railroads & Total War Killing the Buffalo and Destroying Villages

Total War and Settling the “Empty Landscape” Significant Opposition: Little Bighorn (1876) and Chief Joseph (1877) Railroads Buffalos and Villages “Buffalo” Soldiers and the Indian Wars

Government Policy: The Dawes Act of 1887 Land for Individual Families, Citizenship into the U. S. No Tribal Identity, No Reservation Land Supported by Reformers and Western Interests; a Disaster for Indians

Result of the Dawes Act: Oklahoma Land Rushes

Result of the Dawes Act: Failed Policy of Americanization

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