HIST 121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Jacob Riis, Anti-Irish Sentiment, Frederick Jackson Turner
19 Sep 2018
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Final extermination of native claims to the land. Seen as necessary to remove natives for settlement. Us 7th calvary destroyed by lakota, cheyenne, and arapaho soldiers (in. American turn to destroying native way of life. Lasting dark moment even to today for native people in the dakotas. The life my people want is a life of freedom. - sitting bull. Dawes act (1887)- breaks up tribal land for private sale. Bureau of indian affairs- set up boarding schools. Rely on the train network to move crops from small towns to large cities. Most of the wild west is a myth. Ghost towns sprung up for a year or more and then disappeared. By 1890 more people live in urban areas than anywhere else in the country. White anglo-saxon protestant- acceptable religion of the time. Businesses would put signs out that refused irish workers. 1890- chicago and philadelphia pass 1 million mark. 1910- cleveland, pittsburgh, detroit, buffalo join top 10.
