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THE WEST
THE WEST
• The West in American Memory
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• Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show
• Frederick Jackson Turner’s Frontier Thesis
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• Western Settlement– The ideal: the Homestead Act – Other claims on the land: The Morrill Act and
the Pacific Railway Act
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Benjamin Singleton
Southern black migration to the West - “Exodusters”
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• Foreign immigration to the West– From Europe– 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– Page Act (1875)– Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
Angel Island Immigration Station – San Francisco, 1916
THE WEST• Western Economy
– Farming
Sod House - Nebraska, 1886
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– Mining
Silver Mining – Nevada,late 1860s
Copper Smelt – Butte, MT
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• Indians and the West– Johnson v. M’Intosh (1823)– President Grant’s “Peace Policy”
• The reservation system
THE WEST• Friends of the Indian
– Indian schools
• Dawes Severalty Act (1887)
– Wars of the Peace Policy
– The Great Plains Indians
• Mounted nomads
• Numerous distinct tribes
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–Ft. Laramie Treaty (1868)
General George Custer
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Crazy Horse
Battle of the Little Bighorn
Sitting Bull
Wovaka Ghost Dance
Massacre at Wounded Knee (1890)