HIST 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Frederick Jackson Turner, Dawes Act, Frontier Thesis
ID short answer format:
Explain how the items are related to each other as well as the significance
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All need to tie together to one idea
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Include: Who? What? When? Where? Significance? (for EVERY term
within the three)
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Paragraphs must include: Topic sentence (explain the significance
briefly), information/content, and conclusion (restate the topic sentence)
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Focus on the relationship between the 3 ID's
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Frederick Jackson Turner, Chief Joseph, and Dawes Act (this one will not
be on the test because we went over it):
Chief Joseph
Native Chief
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Nez Perce
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Washington D.C.
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1879=Washington (speech?)
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Dawes Act
Legislation that authorized land allotments for tribes
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1887
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Frederick Jackson Turner
1893
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Frontier Thesis
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“Significance of the Frontier” primary document reading
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Represented a common thought at this time, that the Dawes
Act was needed and that the Native Americans shouldn’t even
get that much (“turn savagery into civilization”)
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All involve spreading West and conquering the frontier (westward
expansion)
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Essay Question:
This time, we are focusing on the immigration example topic
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Chinese Exclusion Act
Banned Chinese immigration with the exception of teachers,
students, travelers, and merchants (?)
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They were willing to take lower-paying jobs which meant
Americans had more competition for those jobs
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Haymarket Riot
Protest/riot
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Violent
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Protesting working conditions (wanted 8 hour work days,
better/safer working conditions, etc.)
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Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives
Photo journalist capturing poor living conditions (in the slums)
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New York
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Captured crowded living conditions, food, disease, unsanitary
conditions
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Documented and showed the conditions to bring a face and reality to
the problems
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Jane Addams
Hull House
Settlement house; Organization to help the poor
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This specific organization was targeting helping immigrants
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Helped new immigrants with housing, language, and
employment
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Chicago
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Emergency Immigration Act of 1921
Restricts immigration to meet a quota (from 1890)
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Getting more Northern Europeans to come and keeping out
Southeastern Europeans, Asians, and Latin American Immigrants
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Who do we want in and who do we want out?
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National Origins Act of 1924
Further restricts the influx of immigration into the United States
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With the EIA, certain percentages were still allowed into the
country, however with this act the numbers are even more limited
and excludes Chinese and Japanese completely
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FDR, Executive Order No. 9066
Authorized the removal of any persons from "exclusion zones"
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Never explicitly states the Japanese in the order but was really only
used on the Japanese (after it was passed they were targeted)
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Removed from their homes and immediately sent to internment
camps
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Then their homes are put up for auctions (people other than them
were making money off of their homes)
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Notes about writing the essay
Overarching theme could be government control, policy favoritism,
immigrant experience, rejection/not favoring certain groups (and
why they aren't favored), competition (for labor)
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Chinese are seen as a threat, large amounts of immigrants bring
forward poverty, government aid, and charity, and pose a threat to
our security
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Arguing that some groups are favored and some are not
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Have an overarching theme as to how you are looking to put all the
ID's together
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Make sure that you have a strong introduction (with a clear thesis
argument), three paragraphs, and then conclusion
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Could combine two ideas if need be (racial bias for example)
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Thesis examples: Overarching theme is government, and then in the
paragraphs we could look into disease, jobs, and government
aid/assistance for the three main paragraphs
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Mix in these ID topics as opposed to splitting them up into separate
paragraphs
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The essay question will be a topic directly related to the Jungle, and
we will use the events that occurred in order to support those
themes/argument
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These events occurred in the jungle, and we need to identify how
they are similar to what actually occurred at this time
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Overarching theme of the book (labor issues, immigration, etc.)
therefore you should familiarize yourself with some of the major
events within the book (who are the main characters? Know at least
one thing about each of them)
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Review Session Notes
Thursday, March 8, 2018
7:22 PM
Document Summary
Explain how the items are related to each other as well as the significance. All need to tie together to one idea. Paragraphs must include: topic sentence (explain the significance briefly), information/content, and conclusion (restate the topic sentence) Focus on the relationship between the 3 id"s. Frederick jackson turner, chief joseph, and dawes act (this one will not be on the test because we went over it): Represented a common thought at this time, that the dawes. Act was needed and that the native americans shouldn"t even get that much ( turn savagery into civilization ) All involve spreading west and conquering the frontier (westward expansion) This time, we are focusing on the immigration example topic. Banned chinese immigration with the exception of teachers, students, travelers, and merchants (?) They were willing to take lower-paying jobs which meant. Protesting working conditions (wanted 8 hour work days, better/safer working conditions, etc. ) Photo journalist capturing poor living conditions (in the slums)
