Week 2 I II III IV V VI IX X XI I II III IV V VI HIST 2620 Welch Outline of Last Lecture Reconstruction summary of challenges Election of 1876 Lost Cause Myth Southern Sharecropping Henry Grady editor of Atlanta Constitution Southern Industrialization VII Jim Crow Laws VIII Mississippi Plan Booker T Washington Tuskgee Institute W E B DuBois Plessy V Ferguson 1896 Outline of Current Lecture Industrialization Gustavus Swift Sand Creek Massacre Battle of Little Bighorn General Allotment Act Destruction of Indian Culture VII American West Myth VIII Battle of Wounded Knee IX Frontier Thesis Current Lecture I 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 II Gustavus Swift refrigerated railroad car a Revolutionized meat packing industry b Sears catalog began to get people interested in products III 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 IV Battle of Little Bighorn a Colonel Custer s 7th cavalry vs Lakota Cheyenne Arapaho V General Allotment Act 1887 a Cause assimilation of Indians to America by making them farmers VI Destruction of Indian Culture a Kill the Indian leave the Man b Richard Pratt started Carlisle School to instill American culture into Indians VII American West Myth a Romanticized frontier and portrayed Indians as savages VIII Battle of Wounded Knee 1890 a Geronimo Sitting Bull involved b Related to Wovoka s Ghost Dance a dance related to peace IX Frontier Thesis West is closed according to Frederick Turner
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