Class Notes #3: The West

 

To Do:  Read and watch everything included here, In the Whiteman's Image (found on the Canvas page) and chapter 11 in H & W.

 

Homesteaders--Over a million people

 

Watch my short video on Homesteaders and Native North AmericansLinks to an external site.

 

 

 

 

````````Homestead Act--1862

----Over 400,000 families apply

 

-------160 acres of land that they had to improve

 

Read:   Letter from a Woman Homesteader Links to an external site.

 

----Most Homesteaders went home

--------------isolation and fear of Native North Americans

US citizens have a fear of Native Americans

```````````````defined as the "foreign other"

------------Gov't forced removal of Native Americans onto reservations

------------Violence and Target of the buffalo

------------Wounded Knee--1890

 

------Reservation Schools:  "Kill the Indian and save the man."

 

Read: Native American Women Inspired Suffrage Leaders Links to an external site.

 

 

Chinese Immigration --125, 000-90% men

 

Watch the first 25 minutes of this video on Chinese RR workers Links to an external site..  Feel free to watch all of it!

Watch my video on Chinese Immigration Links to an external site.

1.  Gold Rush

1.  Foreign Miner's Tax---1851
2.  Counties bar Chinese miners
3.  Violence

2.   Transcontinental RR----1869

3.   Chinatowns

1.  Women arrive
2.  Discrimination rises
3.  curfews, segregation, neighborhoods destroyed

 

 

 

 

Book Review of Driven Out:  LinkLinks to an external site.

 

 

Article on Chines immigrants in Santa Rosa:   LinkLinks to an external site.

 

 

 

Chinese Exclusion Act---1882

 

Read:  Prostitution in Early Chinese American Society Links to an external site.