HIST 2112 1st Edition Lecture 3 Outline of Last Lecture I The Worldwide History of Slavery a Slavery in Other Places b Four Unique Characteristics of Euro American Slavery II Where Slavery First Started III Slavery in the South the Keystone of Southern Society and Culture a Slavery was a Source of Economic Political Power b Slavery and Poor Whites the Social Floor c After the War Recreating the Slave System Without Slavery IV The End of Slavery and the Beginning of Freedom a Searching for Family b Schools and Education c Establish Churches d Entering Politics V The Problem of Making a Living the Rise of Sharecropping a The Freedman s Dream Independent Yeoman Farming b White Plantation Owners need cheap labor c Solution the Sharecropping System Outline of Current Lecture I South Dakota Massacre II Moving West III Indians are integrated into society Current Lecture I South Dakota Massacre o Many Americans believed Native Americans should be gotten rid of II Moving West o Americans started heading west 1870 1910 o Country becomes coast to coast empire o Lots of cheap land it almost free to settle on o Current American dream is to be a farmer o Government wanted to help people get land with the Homestead Act of 1862 which divided the land into 160 acre pieces quarter sections o Government wanted to turn land into farms o There were problems between the ranchers and natives o West is ethnically diverse North Dakota so it attracted a lot people o Lots of business opportunities and profit o Land speculation to buy land with raised price o Gold rush also leads people out West o Money in cattle grazing o Significant corporations rise especially railroads o Manifest destiny God s will to stretch across the continent conquering nature o West provides a way for slaves to escape reconstruction o Americans want the Natives eliminated III Indians are integrated into society o Some of the people wanted to assimilate the Indians and bring them into American culture o Want to turn Natives into Americans with education and policy and federal law to make them civilized o Established boarding schools for Indians where they were taught how to live like whites o They couldn t speak their language practice their religion or wear cultural dress o Kill the Indian save the man o Use policy of reservations to teach the natives to be farmers o Dawes Act of 1877 Make natives into farmers Give families 160 acres land to farm o Reservations broken up and sold o Reservations shrink in size be excess and was sold to white people o Land speculation problems white people tricking natives o Best land sold to whites o Lack of farming compatibility many men were hunters women were the farmers o 1890 if Natives perform Ghost Dance then white people will disappear desperate
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