Indian Affairs International Expansion Chapter 17 Transcontinental railroad Congress Union Pacific Central Pacific Railroads Transcontinental railroad Workers Haste makes waste Promontory Point ID: 596661
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Western ExpansionIndian AffairsInternational Expansion
Chapter
17Slide2
Transcontinental railroadCongressUnion PacificCentral Pacific
RailroadsSlide3
Transcontinental railroadWorkers“Haste makes waste”Promontory Point
Other railroads
RailroadsSlide4
MiningPikes Peak gold rushLeadvilleComstock Lode
Various metals
ResourcesSlide5
CattleCattle drivesCowboys“Open ranges”
Meat packing
ResourcesSlide6
FarmersLand and fencesHomestead ActOklahoma land rushes
SettlersSlide7
Great PlainsDry farmingSoddiesBarbed wire
SettlersSlide8
ChallengesLarge distancesNotorious criminalsLaw and OrderSlide9
LawmenTown marshalCounty sheriffDeputies
U.S. marshals
Judges
Law and OrderSlide10
Vigilante groupsPinkertonsLaw and OrderSlide11
Indian AffairsPlains IndiansSiouxImportance of buffalo
Warriors
HeritageSlide12
Indian AffairsIndian WarsFirst Sioux WarWyoming-Montana
Sioux won every battleSlide13
Indian AffairsGovernment goal was to force Indians onto reservationsSlide14
Indian AffairsSioux War1876-77George Custer
Sitting Bull
Crazy HorseSlide15
Indian AffairsSioux WarCuster’s Last StandArmy eventually forced Indians onto reservationsSlide16
Indian AffairsGeronimoNez PerceChief Joseph
Wounded Knee MassacreSlide17
Indian AffairsA Century of DishonorHelen Hunt JacksonDawes Act
Later government decisionsSlide18
Three main goalsDefend Western HemisphereCreate new economic opportunitiesExtend US territory
ExpansionSlide19
Napoleon III Maximilian IFrench support withdrawnMexicoSlide20
IssuesCommerce raidersWho owns islands near VancouverFishing rights
Treaty of Washington
BritainSlide21
JapanCommodore PerryTreaty of KanagawaExpansionSlide22
Pan-AmericanismJames G. BlainePan-American Congress in 1889ExpansionSlide23
China“Spheres of influence”Open Door PolicyBoxer Rebellion
International military force
ExpansionSlide24
Extension of power by one people or country over another people or countryExploitationBenefits
ImperialismSlide25
AlaskaPurchased from Russia in 1867“Seward’s Folly”ImperialismSlide26
Midway annexedHawaiiPlanters revoltedRepublic of Hawaii
Annexed by US in 1898
ImperialismSlide27
HawaiiChinaMission boardsDenominationalFaith missions
MissionsSlide28
BackgroundCausesYellow journalismThe de Lôme
letter
Sinking of the
Maine
WarSlide29
McKinley sent war message to CongressManila BayGeorge DeweyBattle of Manila Bay
WarSlide30
SantiagoBlockade of harborSan Juan HillBattle of Santiago Bay
Puerto Rico also captured
WarSlide31
US takes Puerto Rico, Guam, PhilippinesVirtual rule of CubaAnnexation of HawaiiUS now a world power
AftermathSlide32
Cost of empireMaintenance of standing army, navyPhilippine insurrectionEmilio Aguinaldo
AftermathSlide33
McKinley and Bryan rematchBryan opposed imperialismMcKinley & Roosevelt win electoral landslide
1900