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2. Democratic Physically fit Religion built around myths and stories about gods and great people Competitive Make beautiful pottery Philosophical Brilliant story tellers with long oral traditions Brave warriors Greeks

3. Democratic Physically fit Religion built around myths and stories about gods and great people Competitive Make beautiful pottery Philosophical Brilliant story tellers with long oral traditions Brave warriors Native Americans

4. Democracy

5. Religion

6. Pottery

7. Warriors

8. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VL9whwwTK6I&safety_mode=true&pers ist_safety_mode=1&safe=active How Americans viewed the Greeks

9. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSu4hOLYrXk&safety_mode=true&persi st_safety_mode=1&safe=active How Americans viewed the Natives

11. Assimilation “Instead of killing them all, let’s just force them to act like us.” They must give up their traditions, language, culture, clothing style, way of life… everything (but don’t worry because it is for their own good). Dawes Act Passed by Congress in 1887 Focused on trying to “Americanize” the natives Breaks up reservations and redistributes the land to individuals. Treatment of Natives

12. About 65 million in 1800 Way of life foundation for many tribes Food, clothing, fuel, sport, homes… Slaughtered by settlers, soldiers, tourists, fur traders… By 1890 fewer than 1000 bison left. What happens to those that depended on the bison? Bison

13. Even though the land West of the Mississippi was supposed to be for Native American use white settlers continued to push farther and farther West. Why? Gold, Adventure, Tabula Rasa (clean slate), Land, Grass is always greener… Justification? Racism Different ideas about land claims Property Claims

14. Santa Fe Pull of the West

15. Mining Towns vs Cities

16. Dirty Thrown together Mostly Male Full of bars and brothels Temporary What are mining towns like?

17. American cowboys copied almost everything from Spanish vaqueros in Mexico Chaparreras=chaps Bronco caballo=bronco Mestenos=mustangs Rancho=ranch The entire way of life that we think is so “American” was borrowed from somewhere else. Vaqueros and Cowboys

18. Use cows to make dairy products like butter and cheese Want fenced ranges and fields to keep their animals where they belong and out of their crops Long hours Herd cattle to railroad stations to be shipped all over the country Want wide open ranges for their cattle to graze on and be herded across Long hours Died down because of overgrazing, extended bad weather, invention of barbed wire… Turned to large fenced in ranches. Cowboys vs Farmers

19. Oklahoma The Farmer and the Cowmen