I. Consolidating the West A. Native Women in the West 1. Conflict and Forced Removal of Native Americans 2. Life on Reservations 3. Boarding Schools 4. Native Women 5. Dawes Severalty Act – dividing of land into allotments for individual Native families; rest to be sold to non-natives

I. Consolidating the West B. The Family West 1. Homestead Act of 1862 2. Diversity 3. Impact on Hispanic Communities 4. Women’s Lives 5. Grange

I. Consolidating the West C. The “Wild West” 1. Capitalists in West 2. Prostitution 3. Women Farmers and Workers 4. Women in Unions

II. Late Nineteenth-Century Immigration A. The Decision to Immigrate 1. Factors Encouraging Emigration 2. Personal Reasons B. The Immigrant’s Journey 1. Obstacles and Dangers 2. Settlement in the United States

II. Late Nineteenth-Century Immigration C. Reception of the Immigrants 1. Prejudice against Immigrants 2. New Immigration Laws 3. Gender Attitudes

II. Late Nineteenth-Century Immigration D. Immigrant Daughters 1. Working Lives 2. Family Relations E. Immigrant Wives and Mothers 1. Working in Home 2. Ethnic Communities

III. Century’s End: Challenges, Conflict, and Imperial Ventures A. Rural Protest, Populism, and the Battle for Woman Suffrage 1. Farmer’s Alliances 2. Populists 3. Woman Suffrage in States 4. Populism in South B. Class Conflict and the Pullman Strike of 1894 1. Economic Crisis of 1893 2. Labor Strife

III. Century’s End: Challenges, Conflict, and Imperial Ventures C. The Settlement House Movement 1. Hull House 2. Workplace Safety 3. Other Settlement Houses D. Epilogue to the Crisis: The Spanish-American War of 1898 1. Frontier Thesis and American Superiority 2. Spanish-American War 3. Response of Suffragists