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Railroads and Conflict in the West
Railroads helped the United States grow in three important ways. First, they made settlement of the West possible after the Civil War by connecting farmers (and miners, ranchers, loggers, and...
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Railroads and Conflict in the West
The expansion of the railroads in the late 1800s was instrumental in helping the US economy boom. It did this in two ways. First, the railroads created a tremendous amount of demand for goods...
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Railroads and Conflict in the West
The basic cause of the Indian Wars between 1860 and 1890 was the fact that the Americans wanted the land that the Indians had and the resources that might be in and on that land. The earliest wars...
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Railroads and Conflict in the West
During the Gilded Age, the western part of the United States was transformed economically and socially. The government played a role in this transformation. During this time, the government...
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Railroads and Conflict in the West
Trains and railroads dramatically changed life in America. They allowed for faster, safer travel all over the country. They were more reliable than wagon trains, as these trains could bog down in...
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Railroads and Conflict in the West
The Transcontinental Railroad was a key factor in the industrial development of the United States. Before the Railroad's completion, rail lines had limited reach, and supplies could only be...
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Railroads and Conflict in the West
The two main causes of railroad growth in the United States during this time were the Civil War and advances in technology. The Civil War helped bring about growth in American railroads largely...
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Railroads and Conflict in the West
To me, this is a question of opinion since you cannot really measure the effect of this closure. I would think that you could point to a couple of impacts of this closure. First, you could say that...
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Railroads and Conflict in the West
The southern United States had developed its own culture far earlier than the 19th century; because of its agricultural development and accrual of large farms and plantations. There was no room for...
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Railroads and Conflict in the West
If we are talking only about the early 1900s, railroads helped business grow by providing a wide network of relatively easy transportation. This network helped businesses get raw materials and...
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Railroads and Conflict in the West
The railroad system in the U.S. was the ideal instrument for the terrain: a large geographic country with its population concentrated on its ocean coasts, and with three vertical mountain ranges...
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Railroads and Conflict in the West
The Dawes Severalty Act was a law passed in 1887. Its purpose was to try to assimilate Native Americans and to encourage them to live more like white people. It can also be argued that a purpose...
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Railroads and Conflict in the West
The economy of the United States was directly affected by the growth of railroads in a number of ways. With the completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1869, new markets and resources were...
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Railroads and Conflict in the West
There were several factors that led to the growth of the railroads. One was the movement of people to the West. As people moved to the West, they needed a way to get materials and products to the...
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Railroads and Conflict in the West
Wounded Knee refers to a location in the state of South Dakota as well as a massacre which occurred there in the year of 1890. There is a body of water called Wounded Knee Creek in what is now...
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Railroads and Conflict in the West
There were economic and social changes brought about by the development of the transcontinental railroad. The transcontinental railroad helped the economy of the United States grow. As people...
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Railroads and Conflict in the West
Frederick Jackson Turner was and is important in American history because he originated the "frontier thesis" that guided American views of history for a long time. Turner argued that the presence...
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Railroads and Conflict in the West
The rise of railroads in the decades following the Civil War (around 1865-1900) helped spur the growth of the industrial economy in America and also led to new settlement and commercial patterns as...
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Railroads and Conflict in the West
Both Blackfoot and Lakota are Native American tribes who lived in the American West. Blackfoot tribes lived and traveled in the north of Montana and North Dakota, stretching into Canada; the Lakota...
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Railroads and Conflict in the West
The Pullman Strike was one of the major strikes in US history. The strike started out because workers who lived in the company town of Pullman, Illinois were seeing their wages cut without...
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Railroads and Conflict in the West
The development of federal policy towards Native Americans during this time was driven largely by a growing feeling that Americans had a responsibility of sorts to the Indians who remained. This...
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Railroads and Conflict in the West
Frederick Jackson Turner presented an essay entitled, “The Significance of the Frontier in American History” in 1893 at the Chicago World’s Fair. He argued that all the characteristics that the...
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Railroads and Conflict in the West
According to historian Frederick Jackson Turner's so-called "Turner Thesis," the frontier played a critical role in furthering American democracy. As the frontier was absent of established churches...
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Railroads and Conflict in the West
Although the massacre at Wounded Knee in 1890 was not literally the last battle between the Native Americans and the United States government, it is seen as the symbolic end of the Indian Wars....
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Railroads and Conflict in the West
The Dawes Severalty Act was intended to force Native peoples to assimilate to white society by making them into settled farmers. It was mainly intended to affect Plains Indians, whose reservation...
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Railroads and Conflict in the West
Wounded Knee, in South Dakota, was the scene of a massacre of around 300 Lakota Sioux men, women and children by troopers from the U.S. Army Seventh Cavalry. The soldiers were attempting to disarm...
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Railroads and Conflict in the West
Tariffs, or taxes on imported goods, have been used by the government since the 1700’s to help American businesses. A tariff would make foreign made goods more expensive so people would buy...
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Railroads and Conflict in the West
The Homestead Act and the Pacific Railway Act helped lead to the defeat of many Native American tribes in the West. When white Americans began to expand westward between 1820-1850, they encountered...
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Railroads and Conflict in the West
The railroad companies had a huge impact on the development of the West. As people moved to the West, they needed a way to transport products from the West to the East. They also needed products...
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Railroads and Conflict in the West
The goal until after the Civil War was to remove Indians off land the whites desired and relocate them elsewhere. At this point, whites considered the Great Plains "the Great American Desert" and...
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Railroads and Conflict in the West
Before the Transcontinental Railroad was built, transportation was slow, arduous, and dangerous. Relying mostly on horses and other draft animals, carts or buggies, and your own two feet,...
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Railroads and Conflict in the West
The basic difference is that Turner belongs to an older historical tradition that sees westward expansion as something of a story of progress. It sees white civilization meeting Indian savagery...
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Railroads and Conflict in the West
The famous Native American leader Sitting Bull was a Hunkpapa Lakota, also known as Teton Sioux or Teton Dakota, who led rebellions against white settlers on the North American Great Plains in the...
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Railroads and Conflict in the West
The transcontinental railroad network transformed the American economy in two major ways. First, the network provided the demand that helped to boost the size of the steel industry in the US. The...
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Railroads and Conflict in the West
There are tons of examples you can cite to show that Indians (assuming you mean Native Americans and not Indians from India) have been treated unfairly in US history. In the 1820s and '30s, the...
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Railroads and Conflict in the West
The transcontinental railroad impacted the United States in many ways. The building of the transcontinental railroad allowed people to travel quicker and more easily to the western regions of our...
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Railroads and Conflict in the West
The Dawes Act was a reflection of the industrialization and appropriation of American in accordance to a materialist subjectivity. As prospecting and the desire to link the West via...
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Railroads and Conflict in the West
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Frederick Jackson Turner (1861– 1932) is best known for his "Frontier Thesis" and the arguments it made concerning how the West was the most distinctly American...
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Railroads and Conflict in the West
The major impact of railroads was to make transportation of goods and raw materials faster, easier, and cheaper. Before the railroads, it was very difficult to move goods by land. The only cheap...
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Railroads and Conflict in the West
The building of the railroad system played a significant role in changing the United States. The railroad system was very dense, providing transportation in the eastern part of the U.S. When the...
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Railroads and Conflict in the West
After Spanish explorers settled in California in the sixteenth century, the area’s growth was primarily affected by its maritime connections: the settlements that became significant urban centers...
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Railroads and Conflict in the West
The United States emerged as an industrial leader following the Civil War. Technology saw improvements in the production of existing products such as cotton and steel, as well as the introduction...
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Railroads and Conflict in the West
The Native Americans fought European settlers for hundreds of years, but most of those battles have been largely forgotten. The Battle of the Little Big Horn (June 25, 1876) is remembered because...
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Railroads and Conflict in the West
To Frederick Jackson Turner, the settlement of the West was a good thing and a bad thing. The process of settling it was good, but the fact that the West became settled was bad for the United...
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Railroads and Conflict in the West
The son of a planter and surveyor, Thomas Jefferson knew something about the land, and he realized that America’s was vast. When he was elected as the third U.S. president in 1800, he expressed...
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Railroads and Conflict in the West
European immigrants in the late nineteenth century brought energy, vigor, and labor power into the still young country. Because they were willing to work hard for very low wages, they were...