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Jeffrey Braun
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Events
Columbian Exposition, 1893 Chicago World's Fair
US Census Bureau closes the frontier
Limerick's the legacy of conquest; continuity convergence conquest complexity
before Turner, but provided content for his thesis
westward the course of an empire takes its way (mural)
Currier and Ives versio of westward the cpurse
Us claims land from atlantnic to mississippi
Jefferson buys yhe Louisiana Purchase from the French
Adam-Onis Treaty Spain gives US florida
Treaty of limits; gaurantee border between US and Mexico
Thomas Cole; the Oxbow (shows west as dark and scary)
West is still of foreign possession (russia, england, spain, mexico, NA)
People want to move west because of Manifest Destiny
John L. O'Sullivan "The GREAT NATION OF FUTURITY" religion, patriotism, and a divine mission
Mexico declares independence
Spain acquires Mexico; NA would attack mexican towns, so mexicans stayed south
Mexico is given independence
Mexico signs empresarios that bring american families west into mexico
Mexico colonization law; invites americans to come in, but they have to convert into mexicans and catholism
Spain wants to colonize texas (has been wanting to for years)
mexico closes border to americans because they acted so poorly
americans outnumber mexicans in texas 7:1, they are being treated poorly by the mexican government and want independence; mexican military goes to disarm the texans
Gonzales; the first battle of the texas independnce
the alamo; mexican general santa ana massacres the texans in the alamo and occupies it; this is grounds for uniting americans and texans to fight for texan independence
Polk is elected into presidential office; southerner who loved manifest destiny
us missionaries start to head into Oregon to convert NA
Oregon trail is carved in this decade
US claims oregon
polk compromised to 49th parallel; 1846 Treaty Boundary
John Slidell (southerner); goes to mexico to negotiate border dispute of texas; mexicans disrespect him, so Polk sends in army to occupy rio grande
US annexes texas
start of us-mexico war
Bear Flag revolt; Fremont plants US flag in CA, riles up Californians, and declares Ca to be an independent republic like texas; us annexes one month later
Sutter's fort; Sam Brannon, mormon store owner in Ca, goes to SF and finds gold in the american river
James Marshall and John Sutter see gold nuggets in their timber mill; they keep this a secret for a little bit; Sam Brannon tells everyone in SF and other cities about the gold; he mines miners
Polk finally believes there is gold
SF booms in both size and population
World rushes into ca for gold, 1 year before americans
americans rush to ca for gold
Hangtown/Placerville, CA violence in CA because of competition for wealth
foreign miners tax
CA becomes a state
Act of the government and protection of indians; denied indians the ability to testify i court against whites Also a similar law for chinese is created
CA governor calls for open exterimination of NA
New event
men to women ratio in Ca is 12:1
700,000 slaves, but 4,000,000 in 1860
200,000 free blacks living in south
Gag rule; topic of slavery was so controversial that congress was now not allowed to talk about it
gag rule is rescinded
Missouri compromise; maine is free missouri is slave prohibited slavery north of missouri's southern border
wilmont proviso; did not pass, but asked for all of the territory gained from mexico to be free
New event
compromise of 1850; ca is free in exchange of a stronger fugitive slave act; declares utah and new mexico decided by popular sovereignty
Kansas nebraska act; popular sovereignty in kansas ignores compromise of 1820
Dred Scott v. Sanford; all AA are slaves by birth, so they're not eligible for citizenship says congress had no right to limit slavery
Homestead Act; facilitated yeomen and small family farm by making land cheap and available; cottonacracy opposed this because the land would be free
Samuel Aughey; prairie soil would absord like a sponge and cause rainfall plowing land leads to rain
Dana Wilber; rain follows the plow
end of civil war; slaves were free and citizens
40 acres and a mule
black codes of the 1870s; limited mobility and rights of blacks
sharecropping starts; cycle of poverty
Nidodemus, Kansas; large community of exodusters
Elinor Pruitt Smith; Letters of a woman homesteader; tunred out to be fake
Timber Culture Act; granted additional acres to homestead if they planted trees
desert land act; granted additional acres if farmers irrigated
Timber and Stone Act; sold westerners timberland for 2.50 an acre, companies took advantage of this
Pacific Railway Act; two companies build railroads
both railroad companies finish hard parts of track. decide to meet in Salt lake city
end of the line; rails meet at Promintory Point
Proclomation Line; colonists could not cross line because it would cause too many costly conflicts with the NA
US becomes a nation, starts encroaching onto indian land
Cherokee Constitution; very similar to US constitution, they wanted to show US that they're similar and can coexist
gold is found on cherokke land
indian removal act; trade NA land for western land
memorial of the ladies of steubenville ohio year; petitioned against the removal act
Andrew Jackson's second state of the union; patted themselves on the back for how they've dealt with NA
Worcester v Georgia; supreme court decides that the Cherokee nation is sovereign and georgians had no right to settle; jackson does nothing to enforce this, as he hates NA
Treaty of new echota; says that if NA don't leae, the US will force tgem out with laws/physical force; group of non-legitimate cherokees agree to it (move to the west in return for money) chief john ross of the cherokees did not treat it as a real treaty
Trail of tears; NA tribes forcibly removed and repositioned
Oklahoma Land Run; Cleveland opens land for all
Indian Appropriation Act; reservations were sovereign, but under US umbrella
whites outnumber NA 3:1 in Oklahoma; so many people moved in that they petitioned for statehood in 1907
Meeting of Lean Bear (Cheyenne) and Abe Lincoln; Lean Bear pleads with Lincoln to leave them alone, Lincoln says white people will always outnumber NA and he cannot control them
meeting of Lean Bear and Col. John Chivington; American soldiers kill Lean Bear who was approaching in peace; turning point
Sand Creek Massacre; Chivington open fires on NA village beginning of plain wars
Periods
Manifest destiny starts to become popular; land slavery safety valve
republic of texas
CA Gold Rush
illegal trade of NA children
bleeding kansas; battleground between pro and anti slavery
former slaves with farming knowledge move out west
Permanent Indian Frontier
Event progress
CA's NA population drops from 150k to 30k