1. THE WEST

2. The American West in American Memory

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

4. 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

5. THE WEST Exodusters Benjamin Singleton Southern black migration

6. 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

7. Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)

8. THE WEST Western Economy –Mining Silver Mining – Nevada, late 1860s Copper Smelt – Butte, MT

9. THE WEST –Cattle

10. THE WEST –Farming Sod House - Nebraska, 1886

11. THE WEST The Last Settlement – Oklahoma (1889)

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

13. 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)

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

15. THE WEST Crazy Horse Battle of the Little Bighorn Sitting Bull

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

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

20. WovakaGhost Dance

21. Massacre at Wounded Knee (1890)