Conquering Americas Frontier Frederick Jackson Turners 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 ID: 547472
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Closing the West
Conquering America's
FrontierSlide2
Frederick Jackson Turner’s
Frontier ThesisBelieved that the frontier was the basis of the American identity – self-reliance, innovation, adaptation, independence, and opportunity
Closing the Frontier
“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...." Slide3
Ideal of the American WestSlide4
Home on the RangeSlide5
How they got there
…
The Homestead Act: Citizens could claim 160 acres of government land west of the Mississippi
Pay a small filing fee
Must improve the land
Must build a dwelling
After five years, the land became theirs, free of charge.Slide6
A famous Homestead Certificate Slide7
SodbustersSlide8
I Want To BE a
Cowboy’s SweetheartSlide9
The American
BuffaloSlide10
The Buffalo’s Replacement
The LonghornSlide11
Chisholm Trail – The “Long Drive”
← Over 700 miles!Slide12
THE LONG WINTERSlide13
California Gold RushSlide14
Mining IndustrySlide15
Boom
Towns
to Ghost
TownsSlide16
LIFE OUT ON THE RANGESlide17
Towns of 5,000 people sprang up almost overnightSlide18
Outlaws, Lawmen, and EntertainersSlide19
Wyatt Earp and the Gunfight at the OK Corral
“I’m your huckleberry”Slide20Slide21Slide22
"Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds"
The Pony ExpressSlide23
Transcontinental
Railroad
Central Pacific
Union PacificSlide24
Solving the “Indian Problem”
The Indian WarsSlide25
W
hite settlers clashed with local tribes over land and customs
Treaties were signed that began the reservation system
Not signed by real “chief”
Cheated out of compensation promised to them
A Clash of CulturesSlide26
The U.S. Camel CorpsSlide27
Buffalo SoldiersSlide28
The Indian Wars
“From where the sun now stands I will fight no more Forever.”
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Chief Joseph
Battle of Little Bighorn
Sitting Bull
Gen. Custer
Battle of Bear Paw
GeronimoSlide29
The End of the Indian Wars
The Ghost Dance
Battle of Wounded KneeSlide30
The Dawes Act
Gave each head of household 160 acres of reservation land for farming
Meant to kill the Indian’s communal way of life
Carlisle Indian School:
Boarding schools where Indian children were taught white culture
“Kill the Indian, save the child”
Americanization