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company towns, company owned everything in the town
• Help the spread of prostitution in the west
• Get paid in company script that u can spend in the boom towns
• When companies left the boom towns they became ghost towns |
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| o Federal government gave 160 acres of land to anyone and all you had to agree to was settle (build house, crops, carpeting shop ect.) it for up to 5 years |
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| Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 |
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| prohibits further Chinese immigration after 1882, and prevents the Chinese that are already here from ever becoming naturalized citizens. |
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| Things needed to survive in the west (Farming): |
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• Barbed wire
• Steel plow
• Independent spirit |
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| Federal Governments Policy Towards Native Americans- |
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• Seperation- they wanna believe in what they wanna believe in and we wanna believe in wut we wanna believe in so lets just move them. 1820-1870s is how long we work on separation
• Assimilation-adapted, absorbed the culture. |
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| o Native Americans expected to adopt: |
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Christianity
English language
Fixed societies |
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| Dawes Severalty Act of 1887 |
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Broke native american lands up into 160 acre parsals of land, each head of household would receive 160 parsal of land
Goal- teach native Americans fixed farming and the concept of private land ownership. |
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| The battle of Little Big Horn |
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| • Custer’s Last Stand- between Custer and the U.S. army and the Sioux Indians |
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December of 1890
• 146 Sioux men, women, and children are killed at Battle of Wounded Knee
o Killed bc they were practicing the ghost dance
• Last Major Battle of the Indian Wars
• 1895- most native Americans were assimilated or living on reservations |
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in 1893 wrote the Frontier Thesis
• Declare that the American Frontier is Closed |
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• Immigrants immigrating after the civil war
• Came from southern and eastern Europe-don’t speak English
• Make your way to the city bc it’s the best place to find a job |
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