PPT-The story of the American West in pictures

Part 1 The American Indians Indians migrated from Asia over 10000 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. Beginnings to 1941. First Photographs of Motion. *1877 and 1878 by Eadweard Muybridge, a British photographer working in California. who photographed a . running horse . by setting up a row of cameras with strings attached to their shutters. When the horse ran by, it broke each string, tripping the shutters.. © 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...." . Unit 6. Vocabulary Notes:. . We are going to learn some wordy wording of wordiness – . Prep:. Take out your notebook!. Write your MLA heading (top left) and title your notes: “. Vocab. Notes. 6”. Wassily. Kandinsky. When I grow up. What do you want to be when you grow up?. Our artist, . Wassily. Kandinsky, didn’t plan to be an artist when he grew up. He went to school and became a lawyer first!. 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. 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.. pictures: part 3. Free land on the Plains. Propaganda and promises. Go west!. Cheap land offered by railroad companies. Immigrants from Europe, escaping poverty and persecution. Homesteaders from the Eastern States and European immigrants work hard to farm the windswept Plains. ”. long, violent, dreamlike meditation upon the mythology of the American Old West, with many stylistic references to iconic western films. (. C'. Why this movie?. Time. named . Once Upon a Time in the West. 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.. 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. Assist.Prof. . . Asmaa.Mukaram. . Saeed . Ernest Hemingway – ‘Cat in the Rain. . Cat in the Rain" is a short story by American author Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), first published by Richard Hadley of . Objective. How to download Microsoft’s Photo Story 3 to the computer.. Introduction to Photo Story 3.. Get started with Photo Story 3. Download digital pictures.. Arrange pictures, put type to pictures..