CHAPTER 16 – The Conquest of the Far West

1. THE SOCIETIES OF THE FAR WEST

a. The Western Tribes

b. Hispanic New Mexico

c. Hispanic California and Texas

d. The Chinese Migration

e. Anti-Chinese Sentiments

f. Migration from the East

2. THE CHANGING WESTERN ECONOMY

a. Labor in the West

b. The Arrival of the Miners

c. The Cattle Kingdom

3. THE ROMANCE OF THE WEST

a. The Western Landscape

b. The Cowboy Culture

c. The Idea of the Frontier

d. Frederick Jackson Turner

e. The Loss of Utopia

4. THE DISPERSAL OF THE TRIBES

a. White Tribal Policies

b. The Indian Wars

c. The Dawes Act

5. THE RISE AND DECLINE OF THE WESTERN FARMER

a. Farming on the Plains

b. Commercial Agriculture

c. The Farmers’ Grievances

d. The Agrarian Malaise

Essential Terms

The Following terms appear in the College Board's AP US History Curriculum Framework and, thus, may be used in questions on the AP exam. Students should become familiar with these terms and be able to define them in the context of ...

• boomtown
• American West
• transcontinental railroad
• reservations
• Mexican-American War
• assimilation

FOCAL TERMS - The following terms are helpful in addressing the Key Concepts and Themes of the course.

• Cattle Kingdom
• Chinese immigrants
• Californios
• Chief Joseph
• Chinese Exclusion Act
• Chisholm Trail
• Coolies
• Dawes Severalty Act
• Frederick Jackson Turner
• Frederic Remington
• George A. Custer
• barbed wire
• subsidies
• Dawes Act
• Geronimo
• Homestead Act
• Little Bighorn
• long drive
• Mark Twain
• Plains Indians
• Rocky Mountain School
• Turner thesis
• Wounded Knee
• mining frontier
• Chief Joseph
• Ghost Dance movement
• sodbusters

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