I Introduction Frederick Jackson Turner Land pulled the people Frontier generated qualities of Americans Individualism selfhelp and courage Orderly movement west WP Webb Movement erratic ID: 426289
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The American WestSlide2
I. Introduction
Frederick Jackson Turner
Land pulled the people
Frontier generated qualities of Americans
Individualism, self-help and courage
Orderly movement west
W.P. Webb
Movement erratic
Industrialization and Technology conquered the West
Manifest Destiny
Conviction the country’s superior institutions and culture gave Americans the God-given right, an obligation to spread civilization across the entire continent.
The poverty at the end of Reconstruction prompted large number of blacks and whites to look for opportunities in the WestSlide3Slide4
II. Subordination of the American Indian
1860’s – 1880’s the federal government tried to force NA onto reservations, where they could be “civilized.”
Indian Wars
Chivington’s
raid (1864) 450 Cheyenne and Arapaho killed in Colorado
Little Big Horn (1876) federal troops led by George Custer massacred Sioux Indians
Reform Movement
Missionaries attempted to persuade Indians to abandon traditional culture
Richard Henry Pratt – “kill the Indian, save the man.”
Dawes Severalty Act (1887)
Reversed reservation policy
Treat Indians as individuals not as tribesman
Children sent to boarding school
Remaining land sold to white settlersSlide5Slide6
Dawes Severalty Act
Reversed reservation policy
Treat Indians as individuals not as tribesman
Children sent to boarding school
Remaining land sold to white settlers
Dawes Consequences
Between 1887-1930’s 52 million acres to 138 million
Boarding schools caused children to loose their cultural identity
Wounded Knee (1890) 200 unarmed Sioux killed after Sitting Bull. Extinguished any uprising