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21 Cards in this Set
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The westward spirit |
The great American desert as it was called was considered a vast and into place unfit for civilized people in the 1840s however this it is starting to change as potential settlers began to learn more from promoters and land developers of the economic opportunities awaited them in the west and Americans X towards the believes that it was their manifest destiny their divine right to explore and settle the western territories in the name of the United States |
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Westford spirit part two |
what are those soft bitches and gold cattle or for me to believe that it’s their duty to spread protestant ideals and native inhabitants they have headed west and wagon trains a long pass such as the Oregon Trail European immigrants particularly those from northern Europe awesome it’s a trip settling and closeness ethnic in clothes out of comfort necessity and familiarity African-Americans are skipping the races some of the south also went less in all the newly settled areas were neither a fast track to riches nor is simple expansion incident do you land or rather a clash of cultures races and traditions that defines emerging new America |
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manifest destiny |
manifest destiny justified in Americans minds are right in duty to govern any other groups they encountered during their expansion as well of subs of them is of any questionable tactics into frontier waiting for the arrival of the settlers who could properly exploit the vast resources for economic gain the reality was quite different |
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The homestead act |
The Homestead act allowed any head of household or individual over the age of 21 including unmarried woman to receive a parcel of 160 acres for only a non-nominal filing fee all the recipients were required to do an exchange was to improve the land within a period of five years of taking possession |
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The transcontinental railroad |
The love provided each company with ownership of all public lands within 200 feet on either side of the track light as well as additional land grants some payments of loan bonds prorated on the difficulty of the terrain across because of his provisions for companies made a significant profit whether they were crossing hundreds of miles of open planes working their way through this I had sierra Nevada mountains of California as a result the nations first trans continental railroad was completed with the two companies connected their contracts at Roman three re-point Utah in the spring of 1869 |
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homesteading dreams and reality |
The concept of manifest destiny and the strong incentives to relocate 700s of thousands of people west across the Mississippi the rigors of the new way life presented many challenges and difficulties to homesteaders the land was dry and barren and homesteaders loss crops to hell droughts insects warm some more formless worked at least 11 hours per day on chores and has limited access to the doctors or midwives so they were more independent than their eastern counterparts and worked in partnership with their husbands |
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Sod houses |
The first house is built by western settlers which typically made a an inside with touch rules as there were was little timber for building rain when it arrives percent of constant problems for these side houses with more falling into food and vermin most notably replies scampering across betting |
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pioneer wife |
Woman faced all the physical hardships not mean encountered in terms of whether illness and danger was that a complication of childbirth often there was no doctor and midwife providing assistance and many women tired from treatable complications asked at their new plants |
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Pioneer wife part two |
this what’s this gram image of the tall inches of farm life eventually empowered women to break through some legal and social various many lives more equitably as partners with their husbands the end of the eastern counterparts helping each other through both hard times and good |
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making a living in gold and cattle |
many of the long troll cattle riders were Mexican American or African-American and most of them involved in both pursuits were individuals willing to risk what little they had in order to strike it rich in both the mining and cattle industries however individual opportunities slowly died out as resources both land for gracing an easily access precious metals disappeared in their place came big business with the infrastructure and investments to make a profit |
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California gold rush |
The discovery of gold at Sutters Mill in Coloma California set a pattern for such strikes that was repeated again and again for the next decade in what collectively became known as the California gold rush and we became typical of a sudden disorderly rush of prospectors descended upon a new discovery site followed by the arrival of those who help to benefit from the strike by praying off the newly Rich the slider group of camp followers included salon salute keepers |
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The cattle kingdom |
The completion of the first transcontinental railroad and subsequent railroad lines change the game dramatically cattle ranchers in eastern businessman realize that it was profitable to round up the wild side or the wild stairs and transport them barrel to be sold in the east for us much is $30-$50 per head |
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The cattle kingdom continued |
The Cowboys were all men typically in their 20s and close to 1/3 of them were Hispanic or African-American it is worth noting that the stereotype of the American cowboy and inside the Cowboys themselves for much from the Mexican to have a long settled those lands the saddles lassos chops and Lawrence that |
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The loss of American Indian life and culture |
The interaction of the American Indians with white settlers doing the Western expansion movement was a painful and difficult one for settlers trace on the notion of manifest destiny and Lindsey🐭 lands the Indians added a terrifying elements of what was already difficult and dangerous new world for the Indians arrival of the settlers meant nothing less than the end of their way of life rather than cultural exchange contact lead to the virtual destruction of Indian life and culture well violent acts broke out on both sides the greatest actress cities were perpetrated by whites who had superior weapons and often |
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The loss of American Indian life and culture continued |
The death of the Indian way of life happen as much as at the hands of all intentions reformers as those who wish to see the Indians exterminated individual land ownership boarding schools and please Siri now it’s Indian gods and culture we’re all elements of the reformers of that with so much of their life stripped away it was |
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The ghost dance |
On the reservations suits had the gun to perform the ghost dance which told of an Indian Messiah who will deliver the trash from inside **** with such frequency that white settlers began to worry that |
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The battle of wounded knee |
Seminar militia prepared to round up the soup the tribe after the death of sitting Bull who had been arrested shot and killed in 1890 prepare to surrender at wounded knee South Dakota on December 29, 1890 of a counselor on clear and apparent accidental rifle discharge by Yung Mal Indian preparing to lay down his weapon why do US soldiers to begin firing indiscriminately upon the Indians with what little resistance the Indians mountain with a handful of concealed rifles at the outset of the fight diminish quickly with the truth eventually massacre in between 150 and 300 men women and children |
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americanization |
Beginning in the 1880s Kroger and then government officials and social workers all worked a simile Indians into American life the government permitted reformers to remove Indian children from their homes and place them in boarding school such as the Carl Carlile Indian school or the Hampton Institute where they were taught to abandon their travel traditions and embrace the tools of American productivity modesty and say sick sanity through a total immersion to convince Indians to abandon their language clothing and social customs for more |
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The Dawes act |
The dogs at permitted the federal government to divide the lands of any tribe and Grant 160 acres of farmland was 320 acres of Grazing land to each had a family with lesser amounts to others once all allotments were determined the remaining tribal lands as much as 80,000,000 acres or sold to white American |
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the impact on chinese immigrants and hispanic citizens |
White americans believed that they deserved the best lands and economic opportunities the country afforded and did not consider prior claims to be valid neither chinese immigrants nor hispanic americans could withstand the assault on their rights by the tide of white settlers ultimately both ethnic groups retreated into urban enclaves where their language and traditions could survive |
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Chinese exclusion act |
Chinese immigrants faced harsh discrimination and violence from American settlers in the west despite hardships like the special tax a Chinese minors had to pay to take part in the gold rush or their social subsequent forced relocation is a Chinese districts these immigrants continue to arrive in the United States seeking a better life for the families they left Ohio only one the Chinese exclusion act of 1882 for bed farther immigration in from China for a ten-year period in the flow start slowly racism and discrimination begin the Kim or the new California constitution of 18/79 and then I naturalized Chinese citizens the right to vote The US Congress passed the Chinese exclusion act which for baby father Chinese immigration into the United States for 10 years the van was Slayter extended on multiple occasions in to the refill in 1943 |
