chapter 17. 1.) what role did the army and the railroads play in the settlement of the west? 2.) how...
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Chapter 17
The Transformation of the Trans-Mississippi West,
1860-1900
1.) What role did the army and the railroads play in the settlement of the West?
2.) How did whites justify western settlement and displacement of Native Americans, and how did Native Americans react to attempts to confine them to reservations?
3.) How did the Wild West image of cowboys and Indians originate, and why is that myth still popular?
4.) Why did some Americans wish to conserve the natural resources and beauty of the West, and how did this lead to the creating of national parks?
Guiding Questions
The Plains Indians
The Great Plains
Buffalo
Professional Buffalo killers
“Buffalo Bill” Cody
The West
The Destruction of Nomadic Indian Life
Reservations
The war on Native Americans
Indian Territory
The Great Sioux Reservation
The reaction to reservation life
The West
Custer’s Last Stand
Gold
The Battle of Little Bighorn, 1876
The West
“Saving” the Indians
Helen Hunt Jackson’s A Century of
Dishonor”
Assimilation
The Dawes Act, 1887
The Battle of Wounded Knee
The West
The Transcontinental Railroad
Promontory Point, Utah
The role of Immigrants
The Pacific Railway Act
Land Bureaus
The West
Homesteading
The Homestead Act
Land Speculators
The role of Lumber Companies
The effects of Homesteading
The West
Financial Problems for farmers
Life in the west
New states
The role of Women in the West
The Southwestern Frontier
The West
Mining Towns
Boom Towns
Ghost Towns
Boom and Bust
The effects of mining in the west
The West
Cattle Ranching
The Open Range
The Texas Longhorn
The Long Drive
The role of the Cowboy
1885-1886
The West
Bonanza Farms
California
“Sunkist”
The Oklahoma Land Rush
The Indian Territory
The West
Creating Legends
The frontiersman
Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show
Dime Novel Heroes
Yellowstone and Yosemite National Parks
The West