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=__Chapter 16 - Conquest of the Far West__= 1. What was meant by the Far West ? All land west of the Mississippi that gave people another shot at life, where they could start over again.
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2. The Frontier? It was the empty land waiting settlement and civilizatio, the line that divided. was devolped and undevolped. the Frontier was like the last chance for Americans to start over because, there was no more expanding west. There were many myths to the frontier. People of the west painted it to be flourishing and a wonderful place to live. Althouth there was no garuntees.

=DEVELOPMENT OF THE WEST=


 * The Buffalo-** The Buffalo were key in the removal of Native Americans. The Buffalo was a large resource for Native Americans. There were at least 15 million Buffalo in 1865, 10 years later there was only about a thousand buffalo. The whites saw how big of a resouce that the buffalo were to Native Americans and new that once the Buffalo were gone. It would be basically impossible for the people to survive like this. 

The Transcontinetal RailRoad- the Railroad made it much easier for the people to travel west. It gave them the ability to avoid the long trails and hardships that Earlier Americans had such as The rough life of the Oregon Trail. It was built mostly by the Chinese and was the beginning of the threat that the white people saw them as.


 * [[image:http://www.pbs.org/becomingamerican/images/ce_witness_2_lg.jpg width="210" height="123" align="right"]]The Chinese**- At first the Chinese were very much liked in the states. Until the western people saw them as a threat due to there effieceny and success in America. Soon after came Anti-Coolie Clubs against the chinese that boycotted there products and at times attacked the Chinese. In 1882, Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act, barring chinese people from coming into the country. And kicked just about all of the Chinese out of the country. This is another example of Nativism. The white people had just isolated every race that had entered the country at the time.


 * __Myth__
 * Myth of Frontier
 * The image of the cowboy. educated, Independent, brave ,caring ; a vision of a perfect man per say, a symbol of Western frontier.
 * Western economy independent from Eastern economy.
 * Mining was a sure hit at greath wealth.
 *  ﻿ ﻿A very diverse society * || __Reality__
 * There wasn't as much social mobility in the west as people believed, but there was a lot of global mobility.
 * Much Different from that Myth., lonesome , unfit, and had few to none chances at bettering themselves economically
 * Western Economies depended mainly on government assistance from East
 * There was no guaranteed success. Many people failed and had nothing
 * Very diverse, multi-cultured region. ||



__Patterns of Pop Culture__ Horatio Alger-
 * He created a new kind of novels, callled city stories.
 * The genre arose out of the wide-spread urbanization that followed the Civil War and paralleled the rise of industrialism.
 * Alger's stories heroicized the young street urchins living in poverty among large, urban centers such as New York, Boston, and Philadelphia. With uncommon courage and moral fortitude, Alger's youths struggle against adversity to achieve great wealth and acclaim.
 * These rags to riches stories were enormously popular with the public and flourished in the decades from 1870 to 1890.

Louisa May Alcott-


 * Her novels focused more on women then rags to riches stories
 * She wanted women to attempt to take risks but women did not have the rights to do so.
 * She was like Alger but more so toward women







=__Imperialism__= __DEFINITIONS__ __MOTIVATIONS__ __EXAMPLES OF U.S. IMPERIALISM__
 * Industrialized countries that take over or dominate undeveloped or preindustrial countries
 * other definitions are economic or political influence and othere is territorail exapnsions
 * empire builiding
 * motivations for imperialism are economic growth, land expansion, spreading democracy,
 * Spread religous views and control naval power through out world
 * Annexation of Alaska
 * Annexation of Hawaii
 * Annexation of Puerto Rico
 * involvement in chinese economy and trade
 * spreading democracy throughout the world
 * naval bases in Cuba

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**__ Spanish – American War- __** __ Who: __ · Cuban citizens that had been resisting spanish rule for a long time now · Spaniards that cramped cuban citizens into concentration camps · American imperialists that were helping protect cuba because they sympathized · Anti – imperialist in America that were against inferior asians coming into america and taking jobs fot low wages, farmers feared competition and others thought it was plain wrong · Fillipino tried to fight america for indepence after america defeated spain

__ What: __ · Short lived War that was between America and Spain, America was trying to protect Cuba for there independce, half way through the war America mind set changed to stripping spain of colonies and did so successfully. America gained guam, puerto rico, and filipenes __ Where: __ · Majority of war was fought in Cuba, Filipinos and Guam. · There was no fighting in American territory. · A lot of naval battle in the pacific and atlantic ocean __ When: __ · Cuban revolt started in 1895 due to spanish misrule · The war began in 1898 and was only four months · December 10, 1898 treaty signed that annexated puerto rico, filipenes, and guam to America __ Why: __ · The war happened because America decided to Help Cuba protect themselves from Spanish misrule · After a misconception that //__The maine__//, an American ship was blown up , war brokeout · America took advantage of war and too puerto rico, filipino, and Guam from Spain

=**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">United States History from 1781 to 1915: **=

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">United States History within the years of 1781 to 1915, the United States expanded as a nation, socially, economically, physically, diplomatically, and politically. =====

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">In The United States of America from 1781 to 1915, the country was developing their Independence and culture through trials of failures and successes, in ways of social separation, structuring a cooperative government, economic booms and busts and becoming diplomatically involved. =====

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Themes of AP US History-
 * =Environment-=
 * Enviroment is an occuring theme in U.S. history.
 * It controls the way that people live there lives
 * It was the cause of the slavery debate because the south needed slaves for there farm land but the north didn't need them for there buisness and trade economy
 * It shapes America for what it is. I livre near the city so I like to go out to movies and stuff where a kid on a farm might throw horseshoes around
 * Like anybody, there enviroment usaully shapes who they are and since there are many different enviroments, and everyone wants what is best, it stirs alot of sectional debate
 * =American Identitiy-=
 * This theme is very interesting because there are many different ways to go about it.
 * America has no true identity because of all the diversity and the two parties
 * America has had alot of ups and downs in economy through booms and busts
 * people constantly change there minds on issues and there is always something new going on
 * There is no doubt, alot of parady in America
 * we see ourselves as very powerful becasuse supposedly we have the best politics and we have great school system.
 * Other countries may view us as ignorant because we know we are superior to them