HIST 151 003 1st Edition Lecture 7 Outline of Last Lecture I Chapter 17 The Contested West 1865 1900 Cont Outline of Current Lecture II Chapter 17 The Contested West 1865 1900 cont Wounded Knee 1890 Census Frederick Jackson Turner s Significance of the Frontier in American History Helen Hunt Jackson and A Century of Dishonor III Chapter 18 Business and Politics in the Gilded Age 1865 1900 Mark Twain The Gilded C Age Railroads Union Pacific Central Pacific Great Northern The Golden Spike Current Lecture Chapter 17 The Contested West 1865 1900 cont Wounded Knee Sioux practiced the Ghost Dance performance is frowned on by the U S Government and deemed illegal o Sioux believed that if they performed the dance they would become impervious to the White man s bullets believed they would become superhuman frightened white settlers Wounded Knee the Dakotas was the winter encampment for the Sioux Performed the Ghost Dance and alarmed soldiers warned the Natives to place their weapons in a pile to avoid any conflict a weapon was accidentally fired soldiers opened fire on the Natives One sided slaughter Chieftain Sitting Bull and hundreds of other tribesman were killed Last time federal government opened fire on unarmed Natives beginning of the end for Native resistance 1890 Census Frederick Jackson Turner s Significance of the Frontier in American History Frederick Jackson Turner highly respected historian Ivy league scholar o Key note speaker for a group of historians for the American Historical Association 1890 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 Turns the academic world around researches the American Frontier Looks through the 1890 census Turner s speech goes on to say that the Frontier is what made America what it was concludes that the Frontier in America is no more it is closed off and cannot host any more people 10 15 million immigrants were making plans to relocate to America Southern and Eastern Europeans The Frontier was the safety valve of the United States allowed expansion across the continent Turner insisted that the safety valve no longer existed Helen Hunt Jackson American writer published an account that was derived from her own mind A Century of Dishonor was a novel written about the mistreatment of the Native Americans at the hands of the Federal Government Purpose of publication was to bring attention to the mistreatment Chapter 18 Business and Politics in the Gilded Age 1865 1900 Mark Twain the Gilded C Age American writer extraordinaire considered the most crude and harsh critic of his time o Coined the title the Gilded Age and the Gilded Cage i e All that glitters is not gold It might seem sweet at first but the closer you get you realize it s a trap or a cage Railroads Union Pacific Central Pacific Great Northern By the 1900 census there was 193 000 miles of lain track in America o Only 3 000 miles from Boston Massachusetts to Berkley California Train companies were competing against one another for the resident s business controlled urbanization and mechanization as well and colonization defined Americana The Golden Spike 1st transcontinental railroad completed during the Gilded Age the last spike driven into the ground was made of solid gold to signify the great triumph The railroad was finished in Promontory Utah The spike has to be removed due to the future inflation and possibilities rising of it being stolen during the depression eras Continue to read or begin reading Booker T Washington s Up From Slavery The book quiz will be held Friday 02 06 2015 DO NOT FORGET to go over the terms that are not covered in Dr Knaus s lectures Two out of the five key terms that Dr Knaus does not cover will be featured on the exam EXAM 1 will be held NEXT Friday 2 13 2015