1. Race, Regionalism, and Government Policy: Western Settlement and the Plains Indians

2. Defining Our Terms: The “West” (1870s-90s) “The West”

3. Frederick Jackson Turner and Western History (1893) Individualism Crucial

4. Frederick Jackson Turner and Western History (1893) Individualism Crucial Frontier Experience Molded American Democracy

5. Frederick Jackson Turner and Western History (1893) Individualism Crucial Frontier Experience Molded American Democracy Pragmatic Political Tradition & American Exceptionalism

6. Was Turner Right? Homestead Act of 1862 More Equal Distribution of Wealth in Newly Settled Areas “Equality in Manners” (No 1 st or 2 nd Class) Sense of Greater Democracy in West (Women’s Suffrage)

7. Did West Fit Turner’s Model? Railroads, Land Grants, and Big Business.

8. Did West Fit Turner’s Model? Railroads, Land Grants, and Big Business. Western Agriculture & Cattle Business

9. Did West Fit Turner’s Model? Railroads, Land Grants, and Big Business. Ag. &Cattle Business Mining

10. Total War and Settling the “Empty Landscape” Significant Opposition: Little Bighorn (1876) and Chief Joseph (1877)

11. Total War and Settling the “Empty Landscape” Significant Opposition: Little Bighorn (1876) and Chief Joseph (1877) Railroads and Total War

12. Total War and Settling the “Empty Landscape” Significant Opposition: Little Bighorn (1876) and Chief Joseph (1877) Railroads & Total War Killing the Buffalo and Destroying Villages

13. Total War and Settling the “Empty Landscape” Significant Opposition: Little Bighorn (1876) and Chief Joseph (1877) Railroads Buffalos and Villages “Buffalo” Soldiers and the Indian Wars

14. Government Policy: The Dawes Act of 1887 Land for Individual Families, Citizenship into the U. S. No Tribal Identity, No Reservation Land Supported by Reformers and Western Interests; a Disaster for Indians

15. Result of the Dawes Act: Oklahoma Land Rushes

16. Result of the Dawes Act: Failed Policy of Americanization