HIUS 188 Lecture 3: Railroad Nation

• School: UCSD
• Department: History of the United States
• Course: HIUS 188
• Professor: Rachel Klein

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Hius 188 lecture 3 railroad nation. The greater reconstruction: the west was part of reconstruction, redistributing lands. In west, native americans did not have citizenship, whereas planters were us citizens. Freedmen: parallel between freedmen and native americans, taught how to be wage laborers. Intermediaries: both included missionaries and christian reformers, reports unread, assimilation, wh(cid:455) did(cid:374)"t the pea(cid:272)e co(cid:373)(cid:373)ission work, never wanted peace; wanted submission and assimilation, tensions from previous wars and removal, overgeneralization of all native americans. Forcing them off land since they were seen as a threat to the railroad. If you include the west, reconstruction lasts much longer than 1877. If you include subjugation of na, extends into 1880s. If you include giving territories in the west statehood, not until nm becomes a state 1912. Through free labor and working hard: what was the republican vision of america when it was formed in 1850, a wage worker can save up and move up.