PPT-Chapter 13 The American West

Summary In opening the West for settlement the federal government relocated Native Americans to vastly diminished homelands or eliminated them in military battles Immigrants African Americans amp white Americans eagerly moved into the new frontier to mine ranch amp establish farms New technologies amp perseverance helped them survive in the new landscape. © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.. 1. Expanding Westward. Population growth was stimulated by expansionism motivated by patriotism of America after the War of 1812 and relative calm of internal events. While one in seven Americans lived in the west in 1810, one in four Americans lived west of Appalachian Mountains by 1820. . Bell Ringer. Settlinging. . the West. Conquering America's. Frontier. Frederick Jackson Turner’s . Frontier Thesis. “American social development has been continually beginning over again on the frontier. This perennial rebirth, this fluidity of American life, this expansion westward with its new opportunities, its continuous touch with the simplicity of primitive society, furnish the forces dominating American character....In the crucible of the frontier the immigrants were Americanized, liberated, and fused into a mixed race, English in neither nationality nor characteristics...." . The West: Mexican-American War. Event 1: U.S. ‘annexes’ Texas in March, 1845. Event 2: Border Dispute leads to war in June, 1845. Event. 3: Bear Flag Revolt in . Somoma. , CA. 1. 2. 3. Event 4: General Taylor Drives Santa. Section 2: Westward Expansion & the American Indian. Text Notes. By the end of the Civil War, about 250,000 Indians lived in the region west of the Mississippi River. Referred to as “the great American desert”. Although, they were lumped together as Indians in the minds of most Americans. Native Americans embraced many different belief systems, languages, and ways of life. . Cormac McCarthy. Context. Genre: American Western. Influences: Louis . L’amour. , Zane Gray, William Faulkner, and Earnest Hemingway.. The American west has come to represent two things:1). A sacred, promised land and 2). A desert wilderness, where danger lurks, primarily in the form of hostile Native Americans.. Part 1 The American Indians. Indians migrated from Asia over 10,000 years ago. The landscape of the American Continent. Indian land. Europeans discover America 1492. Indians are pushed west onto the Plains as the Europeans settle in the east. The New South. The Myth of the New South. A Fresh Vision-. It needed a new vision; this was provided by Henry Grady, the editor of the . Atlanta Constitution. , who illustrated a “New South”—a “perfect democracy” of farms and industries. . Reshaping America in the Early 1800s Lesson 1 Moving West. Learning Objectives. Summarize the settlement and development of the Spanish borderlands.. Explain the concept of Manifest Destiny and how it influenced westward expansion.. 3. The Era of Good Feeling. There was little to no political division after the war of 1812, creating a sense of national unity.. In the election of 1816, James Monroe (Republican Candidate) faced little to no opposition due to the weakened state of the Federalist party (barely existing at this point for having doubts of loyalty after the war). Henry Clay (. Warhawk. ). June 1, 1812, after Congressional pressure, Madison asks for declaration of war against Britain. Britain repealed orders in council June 23, which would have stopped war, but neither side knew what the other was doing (note: last battle of war will have same odd twist). Lessons 1-6. a boat that moves by the power of a steam engine. a person who comes to a country from another country. a route across land. the physical characteristics of an area of land. a human-made waterway. Lessons 1-6. a boat that moves by the power of a steam engine. a person who comes to a country from another country. a route across land. the physical characteristics of an area of land. a human-made waterway. America Spreads Across the Continent from Sea to Shining Sea. …. 1800s America. Section 1: . Miners, Ranchers, and Cowhands. Geography & Population of the West:. . - not many lived in the Great . Essential question: How did American, African, and European cultures differ from each other before 1500?. Chapter 1, section1. Warm-up. Think about. . a time when you went to a place for the very first time. .