northwest of Salt Lake City. Ascending to a height of 4‚902 feet (1‚494 m) above ocean level‚ it deceives the Projection’s north Mountains and the Incomparable Salt Lake. It is striking as the area of Projection Summit where the First Cross-country Railroad in the United States was formally finished on May 10‚ 1869. By the late spring of 1868‚ Focal Pacific had finished the first rail course through the Sierra Nevada and was presently moving down towards the Inside Fields and the Union’s line Pacific
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(eastern NW and western TX) -lived in tepees or huts‚ hunted and planted -Klamath‚ Chinook‚ Yurok‚ and Shasta (Pacific NW) -plank houses and canoes‚ good with wood‚ rich civilization‚ both social and political -resisted the invasion of whites -By 1870‚ most had been destroyed/beaten into submission -powerful Ute crushed in 1855‚ ceded UT -Navajo and Apache fought‚ but in vain -NA in CA succumbed to dangerous diseases brought by Gold Rush By 1880 < 20‚000 NA a. Life of the Plains Indians
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1650 and earlier 1430 Portuguese start voyages down the west coast of Africa 1492 Columbus arrives in Western Hemisphere 1509-1547 Henry VII rules England Protestant reformation begins in England 1558-1603 Reign of Queen Elizabeth I. Ireland conquered by England. 1607 Jamestown founded 1612 Tobacco made a profitable crop by John Rolfe 1619 First group of blacks brought to Virginia First legislative assembly meets in Virginia 1620 First Pilgrims in Plymouth 1622 Indian attacks in Virginia
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of previous administrations towards the economy. * Railroad developments in the United States began well before the Civil War but peaked after the Civil War. By 1900‚ virtually no corner of the country lacked rail service. * Railroads transformed American capitalism by adopting a legal form of organization‚ the corporation‚ enabling them to raise private capital in large amounts. * Along with the transformative power of railroads‚ Republicans’ protective tariffs also helped build thriving
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Griffin Weiss Mr. Arroyo U.S. History II Advanced Placement 1 September 2013 Chapter 16 Outline: The Conquest of the Far West The Societies of the Far West (434-441) The Western Tribes * Indian tribes were the most important group before the Anglo-American migration in the Far West * Western tribes developed several forms of civilization * More than 300‚000 Indians lived along the pacific coast among them were Serrano‚ Chumash‚ Pomo‚ Maidu‚ Yurok‚ and Chinook * When the Spanish
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The so-called "Indian Wars" took place roughly from 1864-1890 (from the Sand Creek Massacre to the Battle of Wounded Knee). It was really less of a war than a long series of skirmishes‚ battles‚ and massacres. At first‚ the Indians actually had the advantage because their arrows could be fired more rapidly than a muzzle-loading rifle. The invention of the Colt .45 revolver (the six-shooter by Samuel Colt) and Winchester repeating rifle changed this. Notably‚ one-fifth of the U.S. Army out West
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4) After the Civil War‚ the U.S. Army’s new mission became‚ “go clear Indians out of the West for White settlers to move in” * Receding Native Population 1) Violence reigned supreme in Indian-White relations 2) In 1864‚ at Sand Creek‚ Colorado‚ Colonel J.M. Chivington’s militia massacred some four hundred Indians in cold blood 3) In 1866‚ a Sioux war party ambushed Captain William J. Fetterman’s command of 81 soldiers and civilians who were constructing the Bozeman Trail to the Montana
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spirits) Clash with Christianity/Missions No concept of sin 2-Yuma Crossing Captain Juan Bautista de Anza Exploratory expedition Mexico-Alta‚ CA 1774 20+ people Indian guide Sebastian Tarabal (fled from San Gabriel) Quechan Indians-Gila/Colorado River junction Palma-Quechan leader 1780-two small villages June of 1781-Yumas attacked Spanish. 1781-1830s closed land route 3-Junipero Serra *First father of the missions beginning in 1769 up until 1784. He was responsible for opening 9 missions
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trying to attain the “American Dream” further building the character of the people of the west. The demise of struggling Indian tribes and the ripening of the railroads caused the seeds of the mining frontier to blossom. The lust for the precious‚ yet rare‚ gold was still going strong in California when another grand discovery in Colorado was found. Hundreds of thousands of “fifty-niners” and “Pikes Peakers” swarmed the area all in attempts to strip the land of its gold and silver. The fact that
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The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution The Clash of Cultures on the Plains The West‚ after the Civil War‚ was still largely untamed. It was inhabited by Indians‚ buffalo‚ coyotes‚ Mexicans‚ and Mormons. The American Indians found themselves caught in between their own traditions and the westward-pushing white man. Indians fought one another as with the Comanche over the Apache‚ the Chippewa over the Cheyenne‚ and the Sioux over the Crow‚ Kiowa‚ and Pawnee
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