HIST206 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Manifest Destiny, Homestead Acts, Deskilling
29 Oct 2018
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Advocates in the us start to speak out against the factories. Based on charles darwin"s on the origin of species (1859) Homestead act, 1862 to get land in the transmississippi west, live and farm there for five years for free, encouraged immigrants to come to the us. A lot of manual labor and little opportunity. Endless tasks of labor - bring buckets of water from a nearby stream to do anything. Women - extremely labor intensive, constant list of chores and watching after children. Very isolated from people - long periods of time without seeing people. Closing the frontier, 1890 religion important - church was a social network. Historiography of the west fredrick jackson turner. Turner thesis at columbine exposition in 1893 facing nature helped to build key characteristics of americans frontier experience provided for american development. William cody, buffalo bill"s wild west show. Cherokee nation - there might be gold in the lands of the cherokees, 1830s.
