read and take notes, thoughtfully, analyze what you read by answering the questions in the right column. Remember this step is essential to your processing of information. Completing this guide thoughtfully will increase your retention as well as your comprehension! The West: Settlement of the Last Frontier Continued… Key Concepts and Main Notes Analysis Post–Civil War migration to the American West, encouraged by economic opportunities and government policies, caused the federal government to violate treaties with American Indian nations in order to expand the amount of land available to settlers. Westward migration, new systems of farming and transportation, and economic instability led to political and popular conflicts. Increased migrations from Asia and from southern and eastern Europe, as well as African American migrations within and out of the South, accompanied the mass movement of people into the nation’s cities and the rural and boomtown areas of the West. The competition for land in the West among white settlers, Indians, and Mexican Americans led to an increase in violent conflict. The Farming Frontier… Problems and Solutions… The Closing of the Frontier… Turner’s Frontier Thesis… American Indians in the West… Hopi and Zuni… Navajo and Apache… Chinook and Shasta… Sioux, Blackfoot, Cheyenne, Crow, and Comanche… Reservation Policy… To what extent was the 1862 Pacific Railway Act responsible for westward migration? ATFP (Address the full prompt) and defend your answer with at least one specific piece of evidence. List 4 ways surviving pioneers in the West adapted to the environment of the Great Plains. 1. 2. 3. 4. Based on what you know about the enclosure of Great Britain in the 17th century, what impact do you think enclosure of the West in the United States will have in the 20th century? In your answer, explain the impact of British enclosure as well as explaining your prediction. Proclamation Line of 1763 : Treaty of Paris 1783 Indian Removal Act : ________________________ Explain these connections. The West: Settlement of the Last Frontier Continued…
Key Concepts and Main Ideas Notes Analysis Government agencies and conservationist organizations contended with corporate interests the extension of public control over natural resources, including land and Business interests battled conservationists as the latter sought to protect sections of unspoiled wilderness through the establishment of national parks and other conservationist and preservationist measures. The Conservation Movement… National Parks… Forest Reserves… Forest Reserve Act… Forest Management Act… Sierra Club… Arbor Day… Audubon Society… Connect the significance of the Hudson River School in the Antebellum Era to the reaction to the exploitation of the American environment during the Gilded Age. What is the difference between a preservationist and a conservationist? Which one was John Muir? The New South, pp 347-350 (E – HW) Key Concepts & Main Ideas Notes Analysis Despite the industrialization of some segments of the southern economy, a change promoted by southern leaders who called for a “New South,” agrarian sharecropping, and tenant farming systems continued to dominate the region. The New South… Henry Grady… Economic Progress… Birmingham Alabama… Richmond Virginia… Georgia & the Carolinas… Continued Poverty… Poverty of the majority of southerners caused by… 1) 2) 3) 4) Explain how economic development in the New South helped to “reconstruct” the nation following the Civil War. Explain two limitations of this economic transformation in the South. The New South Continued…