AMH-2020 Lecture Notes - Beringia, Great Salt Lake, Muscogee
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Unit 1: the old west and the new south. Reconstruction- rebuilding the south in the aftermath of the civil war. South attempts to annex cuba and nicaragua but fails. The west is the area where the people who live there think they are western. (ambiguous concept) Extremes in temperatures and mountains in the west (very hot and very cold, grand. Ideas of the west originate from western movies. Frederick jackson turner: famous for frontier thesis . The existence of free land and the advance of american settlement westward explain american development. Now, four centuries from the discovery of america, at the end of a hundred years of life under the constitution, the frontier has gone, and with its going has closed the first period of american history. Stirred a little debate that america should expand overseas. Was not good for everyone, a perfect example would be the yahi.
