Chapter 16: The Conquest of the Far West

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Chapter 16: The Conquest of the Far West APUSH UNIT SIX Chapter 16: The Conquest of the Far West

Plain Indians

The importance of Buffalo

Hispanic New Mexico

Hispanic California and Texas

Chinese Migration

Chinese Exclusion Act

Homestead Act

The 100th Meridan – “Rain follows the plow”

The Lure of the West Mining… Comstock Lode.. Placer mining… Sluice mining… Comstock Lode.. Attracted population and wealth… Women found opportunities…

Cowboys – The Long Drive

Popular terminals… 4 million + driven to market 1866-1888 End of the Cowboy era: Barbed Wired (Joseph Glidden 1874)

The Oklahoma Land Rush (Sept 16, 1893)

Frederick Jackson Turner The Significance of the Frontier in American History “Frontier Thesis” The success of America is tied to its continual westward expansion…

The 3 D’s Disease… Decline of the Buffalo… Dishonest Government Officials/Broken Treaties…

Major Conflicts of the Indian Wars Chivington’s Massacre (Sand Creek)… Fetterman’s Massacre…

Indian Wars, 1860–1890 Copyright © by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. 25

Geronimo Apache Wars

Little Bighorn

Chief Joseph and the Nez Pierce

Ghost Dance

Wounded Knee

Dawes Severalty Act (1877) Dissolved tribal ownership of land… Individual family ownership… Forced assimilation… Indians could… Effects…

Carlisle Indian School

American Agriculture in 1900 Copyright © by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. 33

The Grange Development of agriculture The Grange Cash crops… Mechanization… Debts.. At the mercy of Corporations Government The Grange 1867 – Oliver Kelley

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