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THE WEST

THE WEST The West in American Memory

THE WEST Western Settlement The ideal: the Homestead Act Other claims on the land: The Morrill Act and the Pacific Railway Act The transcontinental railroad

THE WEST Southern black migration - “Exodusters” Benjamin Singleton

THE WEST Foreign immigration From Europe From Mexico From Asia Japanese to Hawaii and west coast of the United States Chinese to west coast of the United States 300,000 immigrants came in the late 1800s Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)

THE WEST Western Economy Farming Sod House - Nebraska, 1886

THE WEST Mining Copper Smelt – Butte, MT Silver Mining – Nevada, late 1860s

THE WEST Ranching

THE WEST The Great Plains Indians Removal of the Great Plains Indians Mounted nomads Numerous distinct tribes Removal of the Great Plains Indians Johnson v. M’Intosh (1823) Ft. Laramie Treaty (1851) Reservation system

THE WEST Ft. Laramie Treaty (1868) General George Custer

THE WEST Efforts to Assimilate the Great Plains Indians Friends of the Indian Indian schools Dawes Severalty Act (1887)

Wovaka Ghost Dance

Massacre at Wounded Knee (1890)

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