Copyright ©2007 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc Alan Brinkley, AMERICAN HISTORY 12/e Chapter Sixteen: The Conquest of the Far West
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Copyright ©2007 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc Chapter Sixteen: The Conquest of the Far West The Societies of the Far West The Societies of the Far West –Anti-Chinese Sentiments Anti-Coolie Clubs Chinese Exclusion Act Chinese Resistance A Chinese Family in San Francisco
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Copyright ©2007 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc Chapter Sixteen: The Conquest of the Far West The Changing Western Economy The Changing Western Economy –The Arrival of the Miners Life Cycle of a Mining Boom Comstock Lode Boomtown Life San Francisco, 1852 (Library of Congress)
Copyright ©2007 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc Chapter Sixteen: The Conquest of the Far West The Changing Western Economy The Changing Western Economy –The Arrival of the Miners Life Cycle of a Mining Boom Comstock Lode Boomtown Life Gender Imbalance
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Copyright ©2007 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc Chapter Sixteen: The Conquest of the Far West The Romance of the West The Romance of the West –The Western Landscape “Rocky Mountain School” Panorama of Lake Chelan WA, 1908 (Library of Congress)
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Copyright ©2007 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc Chapter Sixteen: The Conquest of the Far West The Romance of the West The Romance of the West –Frederick Jackson Turner Turner’s Frontier Thesis “The existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession and the advance of settlement westward, explain American Development.” Frederick Jackson Turner
Copyright ©2007 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc Chapter Sixteen: The Conquest of the Far West The Romance of the West The Romance of the West –The Loss of Utopia Psychological Loss
Copyright ©2007 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc Chapter Sixteen: The Conquest of the Far West The Dispersal of the Indians The Dispersal of the Indians –White Tribal Policies “Concentration” Policy
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Copyright ©2007 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc Chapter Sixteen: The Conquest of the Far West The Dispersal of the Indians The Dispersal of the Indians –The Dawes Act Elimination of Tribal Ownership
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Copyright ©2007 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc Chapter Sixteen: The Conquest of the Far West The Rise and Decline of the Western Farmer The Rise and Decline of the Western Farmer –Farming on the Plains Key Role of the Railroad Map of the Northern Pacific Railroad (Royalty-Free / CORBIS)
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Copyright ©2007 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc Chapter Sixteen: The Conquest of the Far West The Rise and Decline of the Western Farmer The Rise and Decline of the Western Farmer –Farming on the Plains Key Role of the Railroad Barbed Wire Drought Hard Times for Farmers
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Copyright ©2007 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc Chapter Sixteen: The Conquest of the Far West The Rise and Decline of the Western Farmer The Rise and Decline of the Western Farmer –The Farmers’ Grievances Farmers’ Grievances –Railroads –Credit Institutions –Prices
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Copyright ©2007 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc Patterns of Popular Culture: Patterns of Popular Culture: The Wild West Show Chapter Sixteen: The Conquest of the Far West Poster for Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show (Library of Congress)
Copyright ©2007 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc Where Historians Disagree: Where Historians Disagree: The “Frontier” and the West Chapter Sixteen: The Conquest of the Far West Los Angeles, 1877 (Royalty-Free /CORBIS)