Settling the West

After the Civil War, white settlers overcame Native American

resistance and settled the last frontier of the United States

•Challenges of Native Americans

•Impact of the Railroad

•Result of Western Movement

I. Challenges with Native Americans

A. The Great West1. Geography

a. Plains, Rocky Mountains, Great Basin, and Pacific Coast

2. Mexican-American 3. African-American

B. Subduing the Native American1. Pre-1830: Treaties with each

tribe2. 1830: Concentration into

regions3. 1860: Relocation onto smaller

reservationsa. Bureau of Indian Affairs

4. 1887: Assimilation into white culture

a. Dawes Act5. 1934: Semi-Autonomy

a. Indian Reorganization Act

Current Population Density of Native Americans

I. Challenges with Native Americans (cont.)

C. Warfare with Native Americans, 1868-1890

1. Highlightsa. Sand Creek, 1864b. Sioux War of 1876-1877c. Chief Joseph and Nez Pierced. Apache Warse. Battle of Wounded Knee, 1890f. Greater danger than whites: RR

and disease

2. Indian Reforma. H.H. Jacksons A Century of

Dishonor, 1881b. Dawes Severalty Act, 1887c. New Govt. Policy: Assimilation

II. Impact of RailroadA. Mining

1. Pike’s Peak, 18582. Comestock Lode, 18593. Women suffrage

B. Cattle1. “Long Drive”2. Challenge: weather and J. Glidden

C. Farming1. Homestead Act, 1862

a. 160/52. Challenge: Lack of water

a. Dry farming3. Growth of Great West

a. New states and OK

D. Fading of Frontier1. Superintendent of Census 1890 and

F. J. Turner, 1893a. Safety Valve?

2. Urbanization of the west3. Farm becomes factory through

“crop-lien” system

General Mills, the parent company ofPillsbury, was founded during this timeIn 1860 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

III. Political Results of Western Movement

A. Discontent1. Nat. Grange of the Patrons of

Husbandrya. Self-improvementb. Grange laws

2. Greenback Labor Party3. Farmer’s Alliance, 1870’s

a. Reaction to RR’s4. People’s Party

a. Panic of 1893b. Coxey’s Army, 1894c. Opposed injunctions in the

Pullman Strike, 1894

B. Election of 18961. McKinley (Hanna) v. Bryan and

2 VP’s2. Issues: Currency, campaign

finance, radicalism

Shot twice by Leon Czolgosz in Buffalo, NY in 1901

Vocabulary, Ch. 26• Sitting Bull• George A. Custer• Chief Joseph• Geronimo• Helen Hunt Jackson• Wiliam Cody• Oliver Kelley• William Hope Harvey• Mary Elizabeth Lease• Frederick Jackson Turner• James Weaver• Jacob Coxey• Eugene Debs• William McKinley• Marcus Hanna• William Jennings Bryan

• Sioux Wars• Nez Perce• Apache• Ghost Dance• Battle of Wounded Knee• Dawes Severalty Act• Little Big Horn• Buffalo Soldiers• Comstock Lode• Long Drive• Homestead Act• Sooner State• National Grange• Farmers’ Alliance• Populist Party• Coxey’s Army• Pullman Strike• Cross of Gold Speech• Dingley Tariff Bill• Gold Standard Act