THE WEST

The American West in American Memory

THE WEST Historians and the West –Frederick Jackson Turner—The Frontier Thesis –The New Western Historians

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

THE WEST Exodusters Benjamin Singleton Southern black migration

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

THE WEST –Cattle

THE WEST –Farming Sod House - Nebraska, 1886

THE WEST The Last Settlement – Oklahoma (1889)

THE WEST The Great Plains Indians –Mounted nomads –Numerous distinct tribes Sioux Cheyenne Arapaho Comanche Crow

THE WEST Removal of the Great Plains Indians –Johnson v. M’Intosh (1823) –Ft. Laramie Treaty (1851)Ft. Laramie Treaty (1851) Reservation system –Pike’s Peak Gold Rush (1858) –Chivington or Sand Creek massacre (1864)

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

THE WEST Crazy Horse Battle of the Little Bighorn Sitting Bull

THE WEST The Apaches and the last of the Indian Wars Geronimo

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

WovakaGhost Dance

Massacre at Wounded Knee (1890)