American West



Settling the Frontier

Transcontinental railroad

Union Pacific Railroad

Credit Mobilier Scandal

Central Pacific

Chinese laborers

Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

Subsidies - Land grants

Promontory Point, Utah – May 10, 1869

Homestead Act of 1862

Exodusters

Oklahoma

Morrill Land Grant Act 1862 and 1890

“New South”

John Muir

Preservationist vs conservationist

(Teddy Roosevelt)

Sierra Club 1892

National Park Service 1916

Farmers

Farmer problems

The Grange – Oliver Kelley

Farmer’s Alliance

Mary Elizabeth Lease

People’s Party = Populist Party

Demands?

Gold standard

16:1 ratio

James Weaver

Election of 1896

Republican William McKinley

Democrat William Jennings Bryan

“Cross of Gold” speech

Gold Standard Act of 1900

American Indians

Encomienda

Valladolid Debate 1550

Battle of Acoma – 1599

Pueblo Revolt (Popé’s Rebellion) – 1680

Pequot War – 1637

Beaver Wars – mid-1600s

Chickasaw Wars – 1700s

Praying Towns – 1646-1675

King Phillip’s War – 1675-1678 (Metacom)

Bacon’s Rebellion – 1676 – significance?

Pontiac’s Rebellion 1763 – significance?

Paxton Boys - 1764

Battle of Fallen Timbers 1794

Treaty of Greenville 1795

Sacajawea

Battle of Tippecanoe 1811 (Tecumseh)

Indian Removal Act of 1830

Worcester v. Georgia 1832

“John Marshall has made his decision, now let’s see him enforce it.”

Trail of Tears 1838

RR effect on buffalo

RR effect on American Indians

Treaty of Laramie – 1868

South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana

Battle of Little Bighorn 1876

General George Custer

Nez Perce – Chief Joseph – 1877

Dawes Act 1887

“Ghost Dance”

Battle of Wounded Knee – Dec. 28, 1890

“A Century of Dishonor” – 1881

Helen Hunt Jackson

Gold Rushes

California 1848 (49ers)

Colorado - 1858

Black Hills – South Dakota – 1874

Klondike – 1896 – in Canada, next to Alaska

Census of 1890

How did frontier get settled?

Frederick Jackson Turner

“The Significance of the Frontier on American History”

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