II I III IV V HIST 2620 1st Edition Lecture 2 Outline of Last Lecture I Reconstruction summary of challenges II Election of 1876 III Lost Cause Myth IV Southern Sharecropping V Henry Grady editor of Atlanta Constitution VI Southern Industrialization VII Jim Crow Laws VIII Mississippi Plan IX Booker T Washington Tuskgee Institute X W E B DuBois XI Plessy V Ferguson 1896 Outline of Current Lecture I Industrialization II Gustavus Swif III Sand Creek Massacre IV Battle of Little Bighorn V General Allotment Act VI Destruction of Indian Culture VII American West Myth VIII Battle of Wounded Knee IX Frontier Thesis Current Lecture I II Industrialization a Natural resources labor money growth of companies contribute to industrialization b Railroads a key part of 19th century west i Railroads cut through Indian territory forcing Indians to become buffalo nomads c Cattlemen farmers and railroad men competed for resources Gustavus Swif refrigerated railroad car a Revolutionized meat packing industry b Sears catalog began to get people interested in products These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute III IV V VI VII VIII IX Sand Creek Massacre 1864 a Native American resistance to settlers when gold was found in Colorado River b Cheyenne forces Chief Black Kettle and the White Antelopes Chief Kiowa and the Cheyenne Dog Soldiers Battle of Little Bighorn a Colonel Custer s 7th cavalry vs Lakota Cheyenne Arapaho General Allotment Act 1887 a Cause assimilation of Indians to America by making them farmers Destruction of Indian Culture a Kill the Indian leave the Man b Richard Pratt started Carlisle School to instill American culture into Indians American West Myth a Romanticized frontier and portrayed Indians as savages Battle of Wounded Knee 1890 a Geronimo Sitting Bull involved b Related to Wovoka s Ghost Dance a dance related to peace Frontier Thesis West is closed according to Frederick Turner
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