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Chapter 16 – Conquering a Continent (Post Civil War West)
The “Wild West” of the 20 years after the Civil War came to
symbolize a place where individual could re-invent themselves,
where old rules did not apply, where violence was common, where
a tough, independent risk taker could thrive and prosper.
This “Wild West” myth persists in modern popular culture…but it is a
myth. What is the reality?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q16OZkgSXfM&list=PL8dPuuaLjXtMwmepBjTSG593eG7ObzO7s&index=26
Westward Expansion: Crash Course US History #24
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Mythologizing of the West Begins almost immediatelyEx: Buffalo Bill Cody and his “Wild West Show” tours the world in the 1890’s
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Reality is that despite “individualism” myth of the West, the Republican
dominated federal government in the post Civil War era promoted westward
expansion with a variety of policies including:
Land Grants for the Transcontinental Railroad, Homestead Act,
Protective Tariffs and Anti-Indian Policies
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Simultaneous to Reconstruction in the South…Development of the Trans-Mississippi West
Railroads speeds western growth over long distances and challenging environment and “close the frontier” by 1890
Primary Source Reading – Western Historian (Frederick Jackson Turner)
Notes on Context, Purpose, Audience and Point of View
What are some Outside Knowledge details relating to topic?
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Root of Conflict was “Ethnocentrism”Definition: A belief in the inherent superiority your own ethnic group or culture.
A tendency to judge other groups or cultures from your perspective only.
Terrible Impacts of Post Civil War Expansion on Native
Americans of the West
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Plains Indians & American Lifestyles Clash
Plains Indian Culture:
• Nomadic
• Communal• In Harmony With Nature
American Culture:
- Values land ownership
- Values individual achievement
- Values “taming” nature
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“Concentration” policy (begins in 1850’s)
Military forces western Indians onto reservations
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Custer’s “Last Stand”
at the Little Big Horn in 1876
Hero or Villain…
changing historiography
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Ethnocentric Views Toward Indians after Little Big Horn
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Chief Joseph, Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse & Geronimo
Famous Examples of Plains Indian Resistance:
Primary Source Reading – Western Indian (Chief Joseph)
Notes on Context, Purpose, Audience and Point of View
What are some Outside Knowledge details relating to topic?
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“Assimilation
Policy” begins
in 1870’s/80’sEx: Dawes Act
“The Outcome of Our Earnest Endeavors” (8 Min)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-h2xBp81vm8
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“Kill the Indian,
save the man”
Ethnocentricassimilation policies
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Ghost Dancers at
Wounded Knee, South Dakota
“Like Grass Before the Sickle” (14 min) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EdRT56WK7Q
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Republican “tight” money
polices (reliance on specie) and
eastern industrialization
creates demand for western
metals & spurs mining boom but
life for miners is difficult and
most profits go to corporations
in the East
Mining
in the Post Civil War West
Primary Source
Reading – Western Miner
(Mrs. Rachel Haskell)
Notes on Context, Purpose,
Audience and Point of View
What are some Outside Knowledge
details relating to topic?
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Myths & Realities of Western Miners
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Environmental Impact Of Hydraulic Mining
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Realities of
Cowboy Life“Long Drives” &
“Open Range” soon
replaced by
barbed wire
&
railroads
Primary Source Reading: Western
Cowboy (James H. Cook)
Notes on Context, Purpose, Audience
and Point of View
What are some Outside Knowledge
details relating to topic?
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Racial Diversity
of the West different
than that of the East
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Life of the Sod Busting “Dry Farmer” is a difficult one…Primary Source Reading –Western Farmer (Howard Ruede)
Notes on Context, Purpose, Audience and Point of View
What are some Outside Knowledge details relating to topic?
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R.R.’s were eager to sell federally
granted western land to
Homesteaders for low prices but
shipping fees, loan fees, natural
disasters & low crop prices soon
put many farmers into major debt