Post on 18-Dec-2015
Section 1
Chapter 5
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
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
Democracy
Religion
Pottery
Warriors
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VL9whwwTK6I&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active
How Americans viewed the Greeks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSu4hOLYrXk&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active
How Americans viewed the Natives
Part II
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
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
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
Santa Fe
Pull of the West
Mining Towns vs Cities
Dirty
Thrown together
Mostly Male
Full of bars and brothels
Temporary
What are mining towns like?
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
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