Transcript The West Miami

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• 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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Southern black migration to the West “Exodusters”
Benjamin Singleton
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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
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• Western Economy
– Farming
Sod House - Nebraska, 1886
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– Mining
Copper Smelt – Butte, MT
Silver Mining – Nevada,
late 1860s
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• Indians and the West
– Johnson v. M’Intosh (1823)
– President Grant’s “Peace Policy”
• The reservation system
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• 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
Sitting Bull
Battle of the Little Bighorn
Wovaka
Ghost Dance
Massacre at Wounded Knee (1890)