1. THE WEST

2. THE WEST
The West in American Memory

3. 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 - “Exodusters”
Benjamin Singleton

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
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)

8. THE WEST
Western Economy
Farming
Sod House - Nebraska, 1886

9. THE WEST Mining Copper Smelt – Butte, MT Silver Mining – Nevada,
late 1860s

10. THE WEST
Ranching

11. THE WEST The Great Plains Indians Removal of the Great Plains Indians
Mounted nomads
Numerous distinct tribes
Removal of the Great Plains Indians
Johnson v. M’Intosh (1823)
Ft. Laramie Treaty (1851)
Reservation system

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

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

16. Wovaka
Ghost Dance

17. Massacre at Wounded Knee (1890)