The following questions should be answered by Wednesday, January 9, 2013,12:00a.m. Students, essay questions should be answered in your own words by summarizing, paraphrasing, and/or analyzing content information. You should use the textbook or internet as a resource but not to copy and paste or write in someone else's words. Content information should be accurate and based on informational readings and text.Students are to select one (1) question to answer in two detailed paragraphs and state a thesis sentence based on your argument to be explained (Thesis statement should be the 1st or 2nd sentence). Grammatical errors should be reviewed and corrected before submitting your essay questions. The essay is worth 80 points total.
Extension Assignment- Students should comment on at least two of their classmates’ essays by Friday January 11, 2013, 2:00a.m. Your comments should be at least 2-3 sentences in length. he comment should be a critical evaluation of the essay and explain whether you agree with the argument or disagree. This assignment will allow students to become peer supporters in this AP US History class and help critic the writings of their classmates. This assignment is worth 20 points (10 points per comment).Your overall grade will come from Mrs. Ladd.
Students, remember select one question from the following questions listed below:
1. Explain how two of the following influenced the development of the last West from the 1850s to 1900.
A. Miners
B.Cattlemen
C. Farmers
2.To what extent did changes in the South from 1877 to 1900 reflect (a) the vision of the New South and (b) traditional attitudes and policies
3. Discuss the shifts in the federal government's policy toward Native Americans from the 1830s to the 1930s.
1.Unlike the Pioneers, who came with families, the miners came alone. The Gold Rush led to the establishment of towns in the West. Most of the miners that came to California for the gold rush never got rich. Instead they scraped a living by working for mining companies who began buying up claims and opening mines. As these mines opened, the area was usually isolated and mining companies usually provided housing for the men. Some times they grew big enough to from towns and even cities.As soon as the ore body was exhausted, the mine would close and the supporting businesses surrounding would fail as well, people moved out and the town would failed.
ReplyDeleteCattlemen were usually the last to migrate west, and they occupied the Great Plains, where it was too dry to grow crops but which were flat and did not have many precious metals. Sometimes they got into conflicts with farmers, for large expanses of land were required for grazing cattle, but farmers wanted to fence their property to protect it.
2.With the change in political power from the Republican Party to the Democratic Party in 1877, the South again was back to mainly all white governments which eliminated any political gains African Americans had made during Reconstruction. Democratic Party also marked a return to a powerful, conservative oligarchy, which had been the case before the Civil War. These democrats referred to themselves as the "Redeemers" but where refereed by many as "Bourbons" because of their aristocratic ways.
3.Andrew Jackson "trail of tears" removal of the Cherokees from their land, when and where they were put on reservations and did it work,treaties signed and quickly forgotten or abused.
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Delete1. Explain how two of the following influenced the development of the last West from the 1850s to 1900.
ReplyDeleteMiners scraped a living by working for mining companies who began buying up claims and opening mines, because most miners came to California due to the Gold Rush expecting to eventually become rich . However, mines opened and mining companies gave the men shelter . Some times they grew big enough to from towns and even cities .As soon as the ore body was tired the mine would close and the supporting businesses surrounding would fail as well, and people moved out and the town would of course be unfortuanate as well.
Cattlemen occupied the Great Plains, where it was too dry to grow crops but which were flat and did not have many precious metals. The cattlemen usually would be the last to migrate. Often they would get into little altercations with farmers. They altercation would usually be about land of course ,because it was required for grazing cattle, but farmers wanted to fence their property to protect it.
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Delete1.Explain how two of the following influenced the development of the last West from the 1850s to 1900.
ReplyDeleteA. Miners
B.Cattlemen
C. Farmers
Miners settled most in the mountainous regions. There was an important migration to California following the discovery of gold in 1848, but there were important discoveries elsewhere as well.
Cattlemen were usually the last to migrate west, and they occupied the Great Plains, where it was too dry to grow crops but which were flat and did not have many precious metals. Sometimes they got into conflicts with farmers, for large expanses of land were required for grazing cattle, but farmers wanted to fence their property to protect it.
3. Discuss the shifts in the federal government's policy toward Native Americans from the 1830s to the 1930s.
ReplyDeleteThe Indian Intercourse Act of 1790 the beginning of the Trade and Intercourse Era. This Act established that no sales of Indian lands were to be made between any persons or states unless the sale was authorized by the United States. The United States federal government was then granted management of trade and relations that involved Indians and their lands. The main goal of establishing the Trade and Intercourse Act was to keep peace on the frontier and avoid war with the Natives.
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Delete(Explain how two of the following influenced the development of the last west from the 1850 to 1900 *A. Miners , *B. Cattlemen , *C. Farmers )
ReplyDeleteThe government sold land for a reasonable price , which attracted people interested in farming. Some Americans but others were mostly European immigrants. Miners settled mostly in the mountainous regions. What made more people more attracted to California was the discovery of gold in 1848, but that wasnt the only discovery , there were other important discoveries in other places.
Cattlemen were the last to migrant west, and they occupied the Great Plains, where it was to dry to grow crops but was flat and did not have many metals. Sometime they had fights with farmers, for larger expanses of land were required for grazing cattle, but farmers wanted to fence their property to protect it. Settlement generally followed the railroad, for this land was the most accessible. It was also desirable because it ment that farmers and herders were relatively close to their markets.
Discuss the shifts in the federal government's policy toward Native Americans from the 1830s to the 1930s?
ReplyDeleteBetween 1830 and 1900, Indians in the United States experienced dramatic change, such that by the turn of the century, most Indians were confined to impoverished reservations or on allotments carved out of those lands, where government officials exerted profound influence over many aspects of their lives. While policy in and of itself did not always produce this dramatic reversal in fortune, government initiatives consistently favored non-Indian interests and consistently undermined tribal ambitions.
Debates over Andrew Jackson's plan for Indian removal dominated policy discussions in 1830. Scarcely a novel idea, given generations of dispossession, Jackson's proposal broadened the pace and intensity of removal by relocating eastern Indians to western lands acquired via the Louisiana Purchase. Supported by settlers, as well as humanitarians who considered migration, the Indians' best hope for survival, the Indian Removal Act passed Congress in 1830 over the strong objections of critics who considered it a stain on the national honor.
Indian policy then turned westward, first focusing on securing overland corridors for white migrants, then developing into an effort to consolidate western peoples on large reservations. In California, the rush of miners seeking gold decimated indigenous populations, and some fell victim to a legislatively sanctioned bounty system that encouraged murder. In Oregon and Washington, sporadic violence and pressure from settler interests led to a comprehensive set of land surrender treaties negotiated by the territorial governor Isaac I. Stevens in the 1850s. While these treaties consolidated northwestern tribes on small parcels of land, they also recognized aboriginal fishing rights that proved decisive in twentieth-century fishing rights cases.
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ReplyDeleteExplain How 2 of the following influenced the development of the last West from the 1850s to 1900.
ReplyDeleteThe West went through a lot of economical changes throughout half a century that left many impacts in our lives today. There were many people and events that changed the West. The 2 i want to talk on are miners, and cattle men. Both of these left an impact on land and the development of the western region. The west gave many opportunities to settlers and native Americans. Cattle men helped keep the animals in safe, so they wouldn’t stray off, while miners minded goal, silver, and iron, some copper. This gave settlers and others a new way of life. Miners settled most in the mountains regions. There was an important migration to California following the discovery of gold in 1848, but there were important discoveries elsewhere. On the other hand cattle men were the last to to migrate west and they occupied the Great plains, where the soil wasn’t good enough to to grow crops, but which were flat. All of these things had great impacts and many influences.
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DeleteExplain how two of the following influenced the development of the last West from the 1850s to 1900.
ReplyDeleteThe west was a place for opportunities. So many people traveled to the west, which expanded the west land. Land was sold for cheap prices. That matter attracted people that were interested in farming. Some were Americans, but many were European immigrants. Miners settled most in the high regions. There was an migration to the west following the discovery of gold. But there were other discoveries elsewhere as well.
Cattlemen settled in an area where a drought was formed. They tended to have disagreements with farmers because farmers placed barbed wire around their owned items. It's because farmers wanted to take over more land. Cattlemen occupied the Great Plains. They were also known as the last to settle in the west.
Discuss the shifts in the federal government's policy toward Native Americans from the 1830s to the 1930s.
ReplyDeleteU.S. Indian policy during the American Revolution was disorganized and largely unsuccessful. At the outbreak of the war, the Continental Congress hastily recruited Indian agents. Charged with securing alliances with Native peoples, these agents failed more often than they succeeded. They faced at least three difficulties. First, they had less experience with Native Americans than did the long-standing Indian agents of the British Empire. Second, although U.S. agents assured Indians that the rebellious colonies would continue to carry on the trade in deer skins and beaver pelts, the disruptions of the war made regular commerce almost impossible.
Many Indians associated the rebellious colonies with aggressive white colonists who lived along the frontier. Britain was willing to sacrifice these colonists in the interests of the broader empire but for the colonies, visions of empire rested solely on neighboring Indian lands.Andrew Jackson used the trail of tears to remove Indians from there land. Unable to secure broad alliances with Indian peoples, U.S. Indian policy during the Revolution remained haphazard, formed by local officials in response to local affairs.
3. Discuss the shifts in the federal government's policy toward Native Americans from the 1830s to the 1930s.
ReplyDeleteThe policy used by the federal government toward the Native Americans due to the removal act. In the early 1830’s, there were still more than 100,000 Native Americans living along the Mississippi River. The United States had two conflicting polices toward the population: assimilation and removal of Native Americans. The Cherokees created written alphabet, ratified a republican constitution’s legislature, they learned how to farm and built one of the better public school system in the South. The government’s second policy’s, dismissed the possibility of assimilating Native Americans.
The Indians were forced to leave and head to the East and relocate west of the Mississippi River. In 1830 Congress passed the Indian Removal Act and about $500,000 to remove the Indians to the West. President Andrew Jackson’s administration negotiated ninety-four removal treaties, and all the Indians in the East were removed by 1840. In December 1890, over 200 Native American people were gunned down by the United States Army; making the end of the Indian Wars. In 1942, the United States granted citizenship to all Indians.
2.To what extent did changes in the South from 1877 to 1900 reflect (a) the vision of the New South and (b) traditional attitudes and policies
ReplyDeleteThe restruction began immediately after the Civil War and ended in 1877. This era is known for the advancements made in favor of racial equality. These improvements included the fourteenth amendment, "this law guaranteed that federal and state laws would apply equally and unequivocally to both African Americans and whites", and the fifteenth amendment, which granted freedmen to vote. With the end of Reconstruction in 1877, the Republican Party lost control of the southern governments and the Democratic Party took over. This shift in power was supposed to mark the beginning of the "New South" in which the virtues of thrift, industry, and progress would become the model characteristics of the South. Confederates at the time saw Reconstruction as both benefiting and hurting them. They did not want northern culture to be pressured on to there society but they greatly appreciated the help in rebuilding their homes and cities in hope of a better future. Their plans and ideas for the better south looked as if to be perfect at the time but as the government would soon find out they had many flaws. The changes in the South from 1877-1900 reflected traditional attitudes and policies, such as power in the hands of a conservative oligarchy, the maintaining of agriculture over industry as the primary source of economics, and the return of white supremacy, rather than the vision of the New South.
With the change in political power from the Republican Party to the Democratic Party in 1877, the South again was back to mainly all white governments which eliminated any political gains African Americans had made during Reconstruction. Democratic Party also marked a return to a powerful, conservative oligarchy, which had been the case before the Civil War. These democrats referred to themselves as the "Redeemers" but where refereed by many as "Bourbons" because of their aristocratic ways. This ruling class consisted of the former plantation owners and
1. Explain how two of the following influenced the development of the last West from the 1850s to 1900.
ReplyDeleteA. Miners
B.Cattlemen
C. Farmers
Cattlemen influenced the development of the West in a big way. Cattlemen played a very important role at the time. The job of the cattlemen was to keep all the animals in their proper place. They also made sure the animals did not run away somewhere else. Cattlemen helped in a big way with land development.
Miners left a great impact and influence many things in the West. Miners settled mostly in the mountainous regions. The discovery of gold brought many people to the west. The population rose greatly in Calfornina because of the gold. The gold was discovered in 1848. Miners also discovered different other things in other places.
3.) Discuss the shifts in the federal government's policy toward Native Americans from the 1830s to the 1930s.
ReplyDeleteThe fist thing that happened to the Native americans was the Indian Removal act of 1830. Congress ordered the forced removal of Native Americans West of the Mississippi. Next was the Cherokee Nation v.s. Georgia in 1831. Cherokee tried to sue Georgia, but
Supreme Court ruled that Native Americans were not citizens and could not bring lawsuits in federal courts.
Then came the Trail of Tears in 1938. The Cherokee were
eventually forcibly relocated to the Indian Territory (which is now Oaklahoma) , 4,000 of 15,000 died of disease and froze to death on the trip west. In 1787, Society in America tried to Christianized the Indians but they never did. At 1790 the Washington administration recognized Native American tribes as separate nations, Negotiating formal treaties with them. Some of the acts and movements had changed many of the Indians today.
Explain how two of the following influenced the development of the last West from the 1850s to 1900.
ReplyDeleteThe cattlemen protected their cattle to keep them from wondering astray. They worked in the great plains and also sometimes can across the farmers with conflict. The farmers felt barb wire would be better to use but the cattle men felt that would stop their job.
Miners mostly worked in the mountain areas. They made a living by buying claims to work on which in return gave them a place to stay. The discovery of gold in 1848 led to a lot of young men moving to the to get rich and to have a job.