The Great West and Empire & Expansion AP Chapters 26 & 27

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

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

Geronimo Apache Wars George Armstrong Custer “Custer’s Last Stand” a.k.a. The Battle of Little Big Horn Chief Joseph Nez Perce

Custer’s Last Stand, 1876

Wounded Knee

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

Carlisle Indian School

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

Cowboys – The Long Drive

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

The 100 th Meridan – “Rain follows the plow”

Homestead Act 1862

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…

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

Populism Farmers who attacked… Wanted Nationalized RR, telephone, telegraph Graduated Income Tax Loans for crops… Free & unlimited coinage of silver…

Coxey’s Army

Eugene V. Debs Pullman Strike

Election of 1896 William McKinley (R) William Jennings Bryan (D)

Cross of Gold Speech

American Imperialism Primary Causes: Need for overseas markets Manifest Destiny Anglo Saxonism Social Darwinsim Jingoism Influences: Alfred Thayer Mahan – The Influence of Sea Power Upon History Josiah Strong - Our Country: Its Possible Future and Its Present Crisis

The Annexation of Hawaii Missionaries… Sugar Plantations… Tariffs… Queen Liliuokalani…

Yellow Journalism: Joseph Pulitzer The New York World William Randolph Hearst The New York Journal

Remember the Maine!

Spanish American War Commodore Dewey attacks the Spanish Fleet in Manila Bay, Phillipines

Spanish American War Teddy Roosevelt & The Rough Riders charge up San Juan Hill

Results of the War Cuban Independence? Platt Amendment Guantanamo Bay U.S. purchases & Occupies the Philippines Philippine Insurrection U.S. annexes Guam Puerto Rico

Anti – Imperialist League Fought against expansionism.. Prominent Members Mark Twain Samuel Gompers Andrew Carnegie Grover Cleveland

The Struggle in the Philippines Filipino Bitterness… 1899 Emilio Aguinaldo leads an insurrection… 1901 Taft becomes governor… Philippine Independence…

Open Door Policy in China Spheres of Influence Leads to the Boxer Rebellion

Boxer Rebellion

Election of 1900 William McKinley (R) William Jennings Bryan (D)

McKinley is assasinated

Teddy Roosevelt – 26 th President

“Speak softly and carry a Big Stick…”

Panama Canal 10 mile wide zone across the isthmus of Panama

Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine – “Big Stick” Diplomacy

Russo-Japanese War

Great White Fleet