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Great Plains

Chapter 16 - Brinkley 13th edition

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The Conquest of the Far West -?frontier? = place 4 new beginnings, opportunities, wealth, and adventure -Myths were created about the frontier that were not true except for some exceptions -People living in the West relied on the federal government -the idea of the frontier is the land that was unsettled, the west was the last frontier because people felt that once coast to coast was settled, the US would move into the area and populate it? it was a new territory that was not discovered. It was temporary because once settlements came about things became final and change/ challenges/ action began to stop. -Myth= life in the frontier was exciting/ thrilling/ unsettled

Chapter 26 American Pageant

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Chapter 26 - The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution I. The Clash of Cultures on the Plains After the Civil War, the Great West was still relatively untamed, wild, full of Indians, bison, and wildlife, and sparsely populated by a few Mormons and Mexicans. As the White settlers began to populate the Great West, the Indians, caught in the middle, increasingly turned against each other, were infected with White man?s diseases, and stuck battling to hunt the few remaining bison that were still ranging around. The Sioux, displaced by Chippewas from the their ancestral lands at the headwaters of the Mississippi in the late 1700s, expanded at the expense of the Crows, Kiowas, and Pawnees, and justified their actions by reasoning that White men had done the same thing to them.

Steinbeck

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Steinbeck uses this background information on California to show a social criticism, that history will always ending up repeating itself. At one point the land of California was stolen from Mexicans by the squatters but now wealthy landowners were being stolen from migrant farmers or ?Oakies?. This shows how nothing will change no matter how much times have changes or realities differentiate. The significance of Grandma?s funeral shows you how little the Joad?s or the ?Oakies? funds they could scoot by on. Not even the simplest of necessities could be met outside of food and water; this really highlights that desperation of the time period.
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