The document summarizes key events of the Westward Expansion and Trail of Tears in the United States during the 1830s. It discusses how increasing population and demand for land led Congress to pass the Indian Removal Act, forcing Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Seminole tribes west. Approximately 4,000 Native Americans died during the forced removals. The document also mentions painter George Catlin, who advocated for preserving Native American culture and nature through his paintings of the Trail of Tears era.
This is the introductory lecture for 1st year's students of English in American Civilization. It introduces them to the founding values of the American Nation
The United States of America ( Estados Unidos da America)João Fernandes
The United States of America ( Estados Unidos da America)
Trabalho para a aula de Inglês
Se for Professor e quiser o powerpoint para mostrar aos seus alunos mande um email para jfgcf@netcabo.pt que eu enviarei o ficheiro assim que tiver a oportunidade de o ler.
This is the introductory lecture for 1st year's students of English in American Civilization. It introduces them to the founding values of the American Nation
The United States of America ( Estados Unidos da America)João Fernandes
The United States of America ( Estados Unidos da America)
Trabalho para a aula de Inglês
Se for Professor e quiser o powerpoint para mostrar aos seus alunos mande um email para jfgcf@netcabo.pt que eu enviarei o ficheiro assim que tiver a oportunidade de o ler.
Documenting the Stories of Irene: An Ethnographic JourneyVTFolklifeCenter
Jacki McCarty, 8th grade English teacher and Sarah Ibson, 8th grade Social Studies teacher at Harwood Union Middle School partnered with the Vermont Folklife Center on a documentary project in the wake of Hurricane Irene.
In the early days after Hurricane Irene, eighty-five 8th grade students at Harwood sat down to write a prompt about the Hurricane and the Community Response. What grew out of that exercise was a semester long ethnographical interview project that culminated in 5 student produced documentaries.
This powerpoint, originally shared at the Vermont Association of Social Studies in Manchester, Vermont, details the origin of the idea, the scope and sequence of the project, and shows one of the
five final documentaries.
Including references to the tools, technology, and community resources utilized by students to successfully complete the project.
To view the final documentary, visit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Vn5bmEhm7o
For more information, contact:
CHAPTER 9 THE AMERICAN WEST, Expansion and Contraction, 1860-19.docxrusselldayna
CHAPTER 9: THE AMERICAN WEST, Expansion and Contraction, 1860-1920
Contents
Introduction and Pre-Reading Questions: 1
Documents: 5
Document 1, Natives on Westward Expansion (Smithsonian, 1867; 1929) 5
Document 2, The Frontier Guardian on “More Indian Outrage,” 1851 (teachushistory.org, 1851) 5
Document 3, The Rocky Mountain News reports on the Sand Creek Massacre (PBS.org, 1864) 7
Document 4, Representative Grow (PA) explains how the Homestead Act provides, “Free homes for free men” (American Memory, 1860) 10
Document 5, Frances Garside, “The farmers’ wives are not merely ‘helpmeets’” in Kansas (Garside, 1995) 13
Document 6, Narrative of Cathay Williams, a female Buffalo Soldier (sangres.com, 1876) 14
Document 7, Illustration of blacks moving west from Louisiana to Kansas after the Civil War (Library of Congress, 1870) 15
Document 8, Interview of Bones Hooks, a black cowboy (American Memory, 1940) 15
Document 9, Benjamin Singleton testifies about the “Negro Exodus from the Southern States” (PBS.org, 1880) 19
Document 10, George B. Morris on “The Chinaman as he is…” (Library of Congress, c. 1868) 23
Document 11, Anti-Chinese boycott broadside (American Memory, c. 1889) 24
Document 12, Samuel Clemens on Mining Towns from Roughing It (Huntington Library, 1872) 25
Post-Reading Exercises 27
Works Cited 27
Introduction and Pre-Reading Questions: The west was a place that, through the end of the 1830s, was feared by most Americans. People assumed the soil was poor, the climate bad and the Indians terrifying. But by the mid-1840s, farmers, ranchers and miners, among others, took a gamble and tried their luck out west; by the end of the Civil War the romanticized notion of their experience on the “‘frontier’” drew increasingly more people out there in search of “wealth, adventure, opportunity, and untrammeled individualism.”[footnoteRef:1] In particular, it was the frontier thesis of a young man named Frederick Jackson Turner in 1893 that propelled greater numbers of Americans to unknown territory. His thesis said that the free lands that lie west, coupled with the drive of Americans to settle on that land, gave Americans the ruggedness, individuality and power they possessed. [1: Alan Brinkley, The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People (McGraw Hill: New York, 1996), 454.]
What these new settlers found in their quest for excitement, however, was often extreme hardship in the new western lands. The image of the frontier was one of uncharted territory, virgin land, an unconquered and untamed environment, an empty plot of land ripe for settlement. But what these western-bound settlers usually found was a territory with diverse groups of Indians, Mexicans, French, Asians and others, all with different cultures, languages and ideas about “ ‘America.’”
Prior to massive white expansion to the Far West, various societies flourished in the Far West—the region beyond the Mississippi River—places like New Mexico, California, ...
CHAPTER 9 THE AMERICAN WEST, Expansion and Contraction, 1860-19.docxspoonerneddy
CHAPTER 9: THE AMERICAN WEST, Expansion and Contraction, 1860-1920
Contents
Introduction and Pre-Reading Questions: 1
Documents: 5
Document 1, Natives on Westward Expansion (Smithsonian, 1867; 1929) 5
Document 2, The Frontier Guardian on “More Indian Outrage,” 1851 (teachushistory.org, 1851) 5
Document 3, The Rocky Mountain News reports on the Sand Creek Massacre (PBS.org, 1864) 7
Document 4, Representative Grow (PA) explains how the Homestead Act provides, “Free homes for free men” (American Memory, 1860) 10
Document 5, Frances Garside, “The farmers’ wives are not merely ‘helpmeets’” in Kansas (Garside, 1995) 13
Document 6, Narrative of Cathay Williams, a female Buffalo Soldier (sangres.com, 1876) 14
Document 7, Illustration of blacks moving west from Louisiana to Kansas after the Civil War (Library of Congress, 1870) 15
Document 8, Interview of Bones Hooks, a black cowboy (American Memory, 1940) 15
Document 9, Benjamin Singleton testifies about the “Negro Exodus from the Southern States” (PBS.org, 1880) 19
Document 10, George B. Morris on “The Chinaman as he is…” (Library of Congress, c. 1868) 23
Document 11, Anti-Chinese boycott broadside (American Memory, c. 1889) 24
Document 12, Samuel Clemens on Mining Towns from Roughing It (Huntington Library, 1872) 25
Post-Reading Exercises 27
Works Cited 27
Introduction and Pre-Reading Questions: The west was a place that, through the end of the 1830s, was feared by most Americans. People assumed the soil was poor, the climate bad and the Indians terrifying. But by the mid-1840s, farmers, ranchers and miners, among others, took a gamble and tried their luck out west; by the end of the Civil War the romanticized notion of their experience on the “‘frontier’” drew increasingly more people out there in search of “wealth, adventure, opportunity, and untrammeled individualism.”[footnoteRef:1] In particular, it was the frontier thesis of a young man named Frederick Jackson Turner in 1893 that propelled greater numbers of Americans to unknown territory. His thesis said that the free lands that lie west, coupled with the drive of Americans to settle on that land, gave Americans the ruggedness, individuality and power they possessed. [1: Alan Brinkley, The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People (McGraw Hill: New York, 1996), 454.]
What these new settlers found in their quest for excitement, however, was often extreme hardship in the new western lands. The image of the frontier was one of uncharted territory, virgin land, an unconquered and untamed environment, an empty plot of land ripe for settlement. But what these western-bound settlers usually found was a territory with diverse groups of Indians, Mexicans, French, Asians and others, all with different cultures, languages and ideas about “ ‘America.’”
Prior to massive white expansion to the Far West, various societies flourished in the Far West—the region beyond the Mississippi River—places like New Mexico, California,.
CHAPTER 9 THE AMERICAN WEST, Expansion and Contraction, 1860-19.docxchristinemaritza
CHAPTER 9: THE AMERICAN WEST, Expansion and Contraction, 1860-1920
Contents
Introduction and Pre-Reading Questions: 1
Documents: 5
Document 1, Natives on Westward Expansion (Smithsonian, 1867; 1929) 5
Document 2, The Frontier Guardian on “More Indian Outrage,” 1851 (teachushistory.org, 1851) 5
Document 3, The Rocky Mountain News reports on the Sand Creek Massacre (PBS.org, 1864) 7
Document 4, Representative Grow (PA) explains how the Homestead Act provides, “Free homes for free men” (American Memory, 1860) 10
Document 5, Frances Garside, “The farmers’ wives are not merely ‘helpmeets’” in Kansas (Garside, 1995) 13
Document 6, Narrative of Cathay Williams, a female Buffalo Soldier (sangres.com, 1876) 14
Document 7, Illustration of blacks moving west from Louisiana to Kansas after the Civil War (Library of Congress, 1870) 15
Document 8, Interview of Bones Hooks, a black cowboy (American Memory, 1940) 15
Document 9, Benjamin Singleton testifies about the “Negro Exodus from the Southern States” (PBS.org, 1880) 19
Document 10, George B. Morris on “The Chinaman as he is…” (Library of Congress, c. 1868) 23
Document 11, Anti-Chinese boycott broadside (American Memory, c. 1889) 24
Document 12, Samuel Clemens on Mining Towns from Roughing It (Huntington Library, 1872) 25
Post-Reading Exercises 27
Works Cited 27
Introduction and Pre-Reading Questions: The west was a place that, through the end of the 1830s, was feared by most Americans. People assumed the soil was poor, the climate bad and the Indians terrifying. But by the mid-1840s, farmers, ranchers and miners, among others, took a gamble and tried their luck out west; by the end of the Civil War the romanticized notion of their experience on the “‘frontier’” drew increasingly more people out there in search of “wealth, adventure, opportunity, and untrammeled individualism.”[footnoteRef:1] In particular, it was the frontier thesis of a young man named Frederick Jackson Turner in 1893 that propelled greater numbers of Americans to unknown territory. His thesis said that the free lands that lie west, coupled with the drive of Americans to settle on that land, gave Americans the ruggedness, individuality and power they possessed. [1: Alan Brinkley, The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People (McGraw Hill: New York, 1996), 454.]
What these new settlers found in their quest for excitement, however, was often extreme hardship in the new western lands. The image of the frontier was one of uncharted territory, virgin land, an unconquered and untamed environment, an empty plot of land ripe for settlement. But what these western-bound settlers usually found was a territory with diverse groups of Indians, Mexicans, French, Asians and others, all with different cultures, languages and ideas about “ ‘America.’”
Prior to massive white expansion to the Far West, various societies flourished in the Far West—the region beyond the Mississippi River—places like New Mexico, California, ...
A presentation on the development of African-American communities after the Civil War in the United States presented to the Florida Humanities Council Teacher Workshop.
Foner Ch 13A The 1840sChapter Focus Quest.docxbudbarber38650
Foner Ch 13A The 1840s
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Chapter Focus Questions What was manifest destiny?
What were the major differences between the Oregon, Texas, and California frontiers?
What were the most important consequences of the Mexican-American War?
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Q: You’ve introduced a comparative dimension to the discussion of the California Gold Rush of the late 1840s and early 1850s. What important parallels do you see between that event and the simultaneous discovery of gold in Australia?
A: Of course it was a coincidence that gold was discovered in both places at the same time; it was not some global phenomenon. But in fact, these two gold rushes in the 1840s and the 1950s did play out in interestingly similar ways. The discovery of gold in California and part of southern Australia, first of all, led to an immense influx of population into both places of people seeking to get rich through gold. From all over the world, from Europe, from Latin America, from Asia, people streamed into these countries and in both places you developed this extraordinarily diverse population. San Francisco was probably the most racially and ethnically diverse city in the world in 1850, because everyone in the world had poured in there, and similarly Melbourne, Australia, had an incredibly diverse population for the same reason. On the other hand, in both places you got immediate racial tensions, and in the 1850s, efforts to push Asians, particularly the Chinese, out of the gold fields. California became very well-known for its anti-Chinese, anti-Asian policies, banning what they called foreign miners and things like that. Similarly in Australia you had efforts to push Chinese miners out of the gold fields. So I think the experience of Australia can reflect something back on our understanding of what happened in the United States to show how similar tensions and developments take place in this very hothouse atmosphere of everybody seeking to enrich themselves through gold.
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Q: What were the views of both southerners and northerners on the expansion of slavery into the new territories?
A: Southerners felt that slavery had the same right to expand in the new territory as any other form of property. Nobody was telling people they couldn't bring their livestock, their bank notes, their equipment, whatever it was. Any kind of property could be brought if somebody wanted. They said, Slaves are property, they aren't any different. The government doesn't have any rights to distinguish between forms of property. Moreover, southerners had fought in the American army in Mexico. They had died to gain this new territory; what right did the government have to tell them or their relatives that they could not bring slaves there? Northerners of course said, No, slavery is different; it's not just another form of property. Many of them thought slavery was immoral. Many who didn't care about morality said, Slavery retards economic growth..
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Acetabularia acetabulum is a single-celled green alga that in its vegetative state is morphologically differentiated into a basal rhizoid and an axially elongated stalk, which bears whorls of branching hairs. The single diploid nucleus resides in the rhizoid.
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Macroeconomics- Movie Location
This will be used as part of your Personal Professional Portfolio once graded.
Objective:
Prepare a presentation or a paper using research, basic comparative analysis, data organization and application of economic information. You will make an informed assessment of an economic climate outside of the United States to accomplish an entertainment industry objective.
Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
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This slides describes the basic concepts of ICT, basics of Email, Emerging Technology and Digital Initiatives in Education. This presentations aligns with the UGC Paper I syllabus.
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In Odoo, the multi-company feature allows you to manage multiple companies within a single Odoo database instance. Each company can have its own configurations while still sharing common resources such as products, customers, and suppliers.
So, in my opinion this short video explains why the westward expansion occured very well.
Since his paintings where made during this event they are considered primary sources. This is one of his paintings of a Native American Chief.
So, this source tells us that when the Natives were forced westward many died. In the text book it states that "some 4,000 Cherokees died on the 116-day journey"
Now, we know that this was necessary for the growth of America, but it is no excuse to push the Natives West and to have many die before their family's eyes. I say this because in the text book it states that the Americans had no compassion for the Natives and would not stop for the ill people.
