Apush Chapter 16 the Conquest of the Far West Review Flashcards

(AP) The Conquest of the Far West p.430-456

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AP Chapter 16 Written report Guide

Far from being empty and unknown, pregnant parts of what would become the western United States were populated past Indians and Mexicans long earlier the post-Civil War boom in Anglo-European settlement.  Even after the waves of white occupation and in face of significant prejudice from those whites, big numbers of Mexicans and Asian Americans connected to live in the West. White settlement developed in initial boom and decline patterns in three industries that would do much to shape the region in the long run: mining, ranching, and commercial agronomics.  Asians, Mexicans, and African Americans provided much of the labor force for these industries. In the tardily nineteenth century, the South and Westward were underdeveloped regions with an virtually colonial relationship to the industrial, heavily populated Northeast and Midwest.  Except for a few pockets in the far Due west, the frontier line of agronomical settlement in 1860 stopped at the eastern edge of the Great Plains.  Hostile Plains Indians and an unfamiliar surround combined to discourage accelerate.  By the cease of the century, the Indian barrier to white settlement had been removed, cattlemen and miners had spearheaded development, and railroads had brought farmers, who, despite nagging difficulties, had made significant adaptations to the Great Plains.

Brinkley, Alan (2007). American history: A survey. New York, New York: McGraw Hill.

The Rising of Big Business and the Triumph of Industry: 1870-1900

1862 Homestead Act makes free land available. Morrill Act authorizes "state-grant" colleges.

1866 Texas cattle drives begin.

1868-74 Midwestern states laissez passer "Granger" laws to regulate railroads.

1869 Transcontinental railroad completed.

1870 John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil Company of Ohio.

1872 Thomas Edison invents the stock ticker.

1873 Panic of 1873 ushers in 5-year depression.Supreme Court decides Slaughterhouse Cases.

1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia.Alexander Graham Bong patents the phone.

1877 Supreme Court decides Munn v. Illinois.

1879 Edison invents the incandescent lightbulb.

1882 Economic downturn begins and lasts iii years. Edison'south electrical company lights Wall Street. Rockefeller?s Standard Oil Company becomes the nation's offset trust. Nineteenth-century immigration to the United States peaks.

1883 Railroads divide the U.s. into standard time zones.

1885 Supreme Courtroom decides Wabash five. Illinois.

1886-87 Astringent winter and drought cycle in the West crusade collapse of cattle boom.

1887 Passage of the Interstate Commerce Act.Hatch Act establishes agricultural experiment stations.

1889 New Bailiwick of jersey passes law legalizing holding companies.

1890 Congress passes the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.Superintendent of the census announces the closing of the frontier.

1893 Stock marketplace panic precipitates severe low, lasting until 1897.

1900 General Electric founds the offset formal enquiry lab in American manufacture.

1901 U.S. Steel becomes the nation's commencement billion-dollar corporation.

1903 Orville and Wilbur Wright fly the first airplane.

THEMES
American Identity: This chapter is important for raising three issues: the feel of Native Americans during the white settlement of the W; the opening of the American political system to women; and the struggle of Asian immigrants and Hispanics in western development.

Demographic Changes: The centre of this story is one of migration. White settlers moved west, and so reversed that tendency as farming declined. Opportunity lured Chinese and other Asians to America. American Indians under pressure from white settlement and federal policy were forced to move repeatedly.

Economic Transformations: The West underwent several economic transformations. 1 way to think of this is every bit a succession of opportunities in mining, ranching, and farming. Overall, the West, like the East, was industrializing in the national economic context.

Environment: In his Borderland Thesis Frederick Jackson Turner wrote that the frontier, with its vast resources, promoted waste material. Consumption, not conservation, was central to western development. Once an area satisfied immediate economic goals, information technology was abased.

George, J. & Brownish, J. (2007). AP achiever: APUSH test preparation guide.  McGraw Hill.

Digital History

Closing the Western Borderland

In 1860, most Americans considered the Keen Plains the Great American Desert. Settlement west of Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, and Louisiana averaged merely 1 person per square mile. The only parts of the Far West that were highly settled were California and Texas. Betwixt 1865 and the 1890s, withal, Americans settled 430 million acres in the Far West--more than land than during the preceding 250 years of American history. By 1893, the Demography Bureau was able to claim that the entire western frontier was now occupied. The discovery of gold, silver, and other precious minerals in California in 1849, in Nevada and Colorado in the 1850s, in Idaho and Montana in 1860s, and South Dakota in the 1870s sparked an influx of prospectors and miners. The expansion of railroads and the invention of barbed wire and improvements in windmills and pumps attracted ranchers and farmers to the Great Plains in the 1860s and 1870s. This chapter examines the forces that drove Americans due west; the kinds of lives they established in the Far West; and the rise of the "West of the imagination," the popular myths that continue to exert a powerful hold on mass culture.

Biography of America

The West (serial 16)
Professor Scharff continues the story of Jefferson's Empire of Liberty. Railroads and ranchers, rabble-rousers and racists populate America's distant frontiers, and Native Americans are displaced from their homelands. Feminists gain a foothold in their fight for the right to vote, while farmers organize and the Populist Party appears on the American political landscape.

Lecture Outlines

The American Westward 1860-1890

Articles

Tragedy of the Plains Indians

Closing the Western Borderland

Student Assignments

1860-1890 Legislation ws

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