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Conquest of the Far West reffers to the lands west of the mississippi river including texas, colorado, california, new mexico montana etc. media type="custom" key="7832679"

the idea of the land where there is oportunity, resourses, and challenges and is able to be taken advantage of and is uninhabited.
 * What is the Frontier?**
 * The Development of the West**

native americans were economically dependant on the buffalo because it previded them with there entire way of life white settlers hunted the wild buffalo to near extinction in the late 19th century to a population only in the hundreds mainly hunted by settlers for the hides or horns which wasted most of the animal were often shot for sport wasting the entire animal decline in population of buffalo greatly affected the native americans as they had to find another source of food and resources the buffalo was symbol how the invasion of white settlers and their destruction of the west and the plains indians 90% of the workers on the trancontinental railroad were chinese for every mile of track laid the government sold land next to it at low prices to encourage settlement was a major engineering feat to get the railroad over,around and through many of the features in the western topography map of the route the railroad took across the western part of the country picture showing some of the track through the mountains some of the reasons the chinese came to america was the california gold rush and the building of the transcontinental railroad the burlingame treaty in 1868 opened the doors for the many potential chinese immigrants to leave the country and become americans in america they created communities like chinatown because of the close nit culture of the chinese the great number of chinese coming to america caused resentment among white leading up to the chinese exclusion acts which blocked immigration and naturalization would take lower paying jobs that was often viewed as the chinese taking the jobs of whites because they accepted such lower wages differing languages, cultures, and religon caused major diffrences between chinese and anglo-american settlers and untimately racism homestead act low price for land and settlement of the west. encouraged western migration and economic growth pushing the idea of the american dream that everyone has their own plot of land, home, piece fo teh pie this is welfare capitalism, government intervention in teh economy
 * The Buffalo**
 * a pile of buffalo or bison skulls**
 * several pictures of a buffalo put to motion to desplay the movement of the animal**
 * The Railroad**
 * The Chinese**
 * Government Policy**

Myth Compared to Reality in the West

 * MYTH || REALITY ||
 * the west was uninhabited || the west was already settled by the native amewricans and other groups such as the spanish ||
 * life on the frontier was an adventurous exciting experience || life in the west was often harsh back breaking and lonely ||
 * The Cowboy || was really just a low paid worker ||
 * The American Dream || not everyone got to own their own plot of land and many people failed and went back east ||
 * Savage Native Americans || were a civilized people who just had diffrent views and cultures than the white settlers ||
 * The last Unsettled Frontier || was not the paradise people were looking for and often gave them a worse life than they had had in the east ||
 * Equality and democracy in the west || there was still racism towards people who were not anglo-american settlers like the chinese and native americans ||
 * Rugged individuals || the settlers often relied on the east to survive. the eastern economy, grants, subsidies and military protection ||
 * The Chinese were designed for mining || it was just a stereotype about the chinese being short ||

Chapter 17 industrial supremacy "the second industrial revolution
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 * descovery of large oil deposits leads to new ways to use it
 * development of the internal combustion engine
 * developed cars and aircraft starting with ballons and dirigibles
 * henry ford starts his car company and create the first assembly line
 * the begining of the airplane was in america but france's government funded its own and quickly becamew the center of flight
 * advancements in tools and technology
 * railroads exspand
 * iron industry boomed in pennsylvania
 * railroad company and steel comapny were greatly connected
 * oil and coal industry became the most demanded in america
 * social darwinism
 * immigrants made up the most of the work force

connections between economic growth and capitalism, social darwinsim, gospel of wealth, and inequality Chapter 18 preview "the age of the city" by the 1900 most of the country had been successfully settled with large populations new immigration was a large part of the population increase especially starting in the 1900's
 * capitalism led to the economic growth because capitalism supports the expansion of private companies
 * in the new economic growth the poor were greatly abused and excluded from propering while the wealthy or "fit" continued to prosper
 * as the profits of the new industies increased so did the divide between the rich and the poor.
 * although the quality of life improved for all the rate at which it improved for diffrent classes and races was very diffrent
 * gospel of wealth is about helping others to help yourself because it says the rich should support the poor to help themselves
 * use some of the money the rich have to improve the over all society by creating oppurtunities through creating scholarships, libraries, schools and othe philanthropic endeavors

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Chapter 20 The Imperial Republic imperialism is the belief in or practice of imperialist is one is who believes in or practices examples
 * IMPERIALISM**
 * take over the world
 * expand the country for gains for the country
 * expand often by force
 * colonization
 * annexation
 * protectorate, the idea of looking out for another territory to gain influence
 * sphere of influence
 * new manifest destiny outside of the continent
 * the policy of extending the rule or authority of an empire or nation over foreign countries, or of acquiring and holding colonies and dependencies.
 * extending power anf influence abroad
 * political, economic, cultural
 * expanding international power
 * industrializied nations exerting power over nations that have yet to industrialize
 * US annexation of Perto Rico and Hawaii is an example of territoral aquistion
 * the US excertede politcal power on venezula is an example of expansion of political power and influence

Examples of american imperialism
 * Motivations for imperialism**
 * resources
 * labor
 * strategic military locations
 * trade
 * religious reasons
 * spread domacracy
 * pride
 * land gains
 * god, glory and gold
 * colonization
 * new markets and customers
 * hawaii-resources and location
 * puerto rico-resources, markets,
 * philippines- taking a colony from spain, spread religion, milkitary locations, trade
 * cuba- trade, military location
 * venezula- political influence
 * samoa- trade, military base
 * guam- military bases
 * us virgin islands- markets, military base, cheap trade
 * panama- build the canal

Spanish American War started by increasing news coverage and exagerated reporting called yellow jurnalism which created public anger over the sinking of the Maine america took over the phillipines, guam, puerto rico and cuba was called the splendid little war because it was only 4 months and the americans gained a lot of territory and new markets at very little cost. media type="custom" key="7984328"

America From 1780 to 1910 thesis: in this period of american history the country became a world power as it finally settled the largest domestic dispute of slavery and it branched out to the entire continent. the country developed its culture and identity and became a larger force in the events of the world. edited thesis: in this period of american history the country developed a sense of national identity as it became a world power both politically and economically. this is due to the shift of the country from a domestically involved country to an interventionist nation. Simon's thesis: as the united states became nits own independant country it started to develope its own unique identity and culture as well as expand its territory and grow from a country interested in its own domestic affairs to a country involved with the issues of other world powers. group thesis: throughout the period of 1780 to 1910 the country created its own identity solved domestic problems and began to spread this culture throught the world. the country developed mainly through the industrialization of the country and the shiftting social groups.

from 1780 to 1910 the US experienced a shift from an agraian to an industrialized country. this solidified the country's culture and caused the interest in a greater economic and political influence in foreign affairs.