1. THE WEST

2. THE WEST • The American West in American Memory

3. THE WEST • Historians and the West • Frederick Jackson Turner—The Frontier Thesis • The New Western Historians

4. THE WEST Western Settlement The ideal: the Homestead Act Other claims on the land: The Morrill Act and the Pacific Railway Act The transcontinental railroad

5. THE WEST Southern black migration Benjamin Singleton Exodusters

6. THE WEST • Foreign immigration • From Europe • From Mexico • From Asia • Japanese to Hawaii and west coast of the United States • Chinese to west coast of the United States • 300,000 immigrants came in the late 1800s

7. Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)

8. THE WEST • Western Economy • Mining Copper Smelt – Butte, MT Silver Mining – Nevada, late 1860s

9. THE WEST • Cattle

10. THE WEST • Farming Sod House - Nebraska, 1886

11. THE WEST • The Last Settlement – Oklahoma (1889)

12. THE WEST • The Great Plains Indians • Mounted nomads • Numerous distinct tribes • Sioux • Cheyenne • Arapaho • Comanche • Crow

13. THE WEST • Removal of the Great Plains Indians • Johnson v. M’Intosh (1823) • Ft. Laramie Treaty (1851) • Reservation system • Pike’s Peak Gold Rush (1858) • Chivington or Sand Creek massacre (1864)

14. THE WEST • Ft. Laramie Treaty (1868) General George Custer

15. THE WEST Crazy Horse Sitting Bull Battle of the Little Bighorn

18. THE WEST • The Apaches and the last of the Indian Wars Geronimo

19. THE WEST • Efforts to Assimilate the Great Plains Indians • Friends of the Indian • Indian schools • Dawes Severalty Act (1887)

20. Wovaka Ghost Dance

21. Massacre at Wounded Knee (1890)