The American West

Settling the Frontier American Indians Transcontinental railroad Encomienda Valladolid Debate 1550 Union Pacific Railroad Battle of Acoma – 1599 Credit Mobilier Scandal Pueblo Revolt (Popé’s Rebellion) – 1680 Pequot War – 1637 Central Pacific Beaver Wars – mid-1600s Chinese laborers Chickasaw Wars – 1700s Praying Towns – 1646-1675 Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 King Phillip’s War – 1675-1678 (Metacom) Subsidies - Land grants Bacon’s Rebellion – 1676 – significance? Pontiac’s Rebellion 1763 – significance? Promontory Point, Utah – May 10, 1869 Paxton Boys - 1764 Battle of Fallen Timbers 1794 Treaty of Greenville 1795 Homestead Act of 1862 Sacajawea Exodusters Battle of Tippecanoe 1811 (Tecumseh) Indian Removal Act of 1830 Oklahoma Worcester v. Georgia 1832 Morrill Land Grant Act 1862 and 1890 “John Marshall has made his decision, now let’s see him enforce it.” Trail of Tears 1838 “New South” RR effect on buffalo RR effect on American Indians John Muir Treaty of Laramie – 1868 Preservationist vs conservationist South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana (Teddy Roosevelt) Battle of Little Bighorn 1876 Sierra Club 1892 General George Custer National Park Service 1916 Nez Perce – Chief Joseph – 1877 Dawes Act 1887 Farmers “Ghost Dance” Farmer problems Battle of Wounded Knee – Dec. 28, 1890 The Grange – Oliver Kelley “A Century of Dishonor” – 1881 Farmer’s Alliance Helen Hunt Jackson Mary Elizabeth Lease People’s Party = Populist Party Gold Rushes Demands? California 1848 (49ers) Gold standard Colorado - 1858 16:1 ratio Black Hills – South Dakota – 1874 James Weaver Klondike – 1896 – in Canada, next to Alaska Election of 1896 Republican William McKinley Census of 1890 Democrat William Jennings Bryan How did frontier get settled? “Cross of Gold” speech Gold Standard Act of 1900 Frederick Jackson Turner “The Significance of the Frontier on American History”