Agenda for 1/6

1862 - Largest Mass Execution in US History - Mankato, MN

1. Aaron Huey and Pine Ridge - TED Talk

• A Long History of broken treaties
• The Pine Ridge Reservation today...
• Unemployment rate of 80-90%
• Per capita income of $4,000
• 8 Times the United States rate of diabetes
• 5 Times the United States rate of cervical cancer
• Twice the rate of heart disease
• 8 Times the United States rate of Tuberculosis
• Alcoholism rate estimated as high as 80%
• 1 in 4 infants born with fetal alcohol syndrome or effects
• Suicide rate more than twice the national rate
• Teen suicide rate 4 times the national rate
• Infant mortality is three times the national rate
• Life expectancy (48 years) is lower than anywhere in the United States and the 2nd lowest in the Western Hemisphere. Only Haiti has a lower rate. 

2. Wounded Knee

3. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

4. Crash Course - Westward Expansion 

5. Dawes Act

6. Chinese Exclusion Act - 1882

An Act to execute certain treaty stipulations relating to Chinese. 
 

Whereas in the opinion of the Government of the United States the coming of Chinese laborers to this country endangers the good order of certain localities within the territory thereof: Therefore,
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the expiration of ninety days next after the passage of this act, and until the expiration of ten years next after the passage of this act, the coming of Chinese laborers to the United States be, and the same is hereby, suspended; and during such suspension it shall not be lawful for any Chinese laborer to come, or having so come after the expiration of said ninety days to remain within the United States

7.  Causes of Westward Expansion and Settlement

• Manifest Destiny (ideological) 
• Immigration (in the millions post war) 
• Cheap land (Homestead Act 1862, Morrill Land Grants 1862, Desert Land Act 1877, Timber Culture Act 1873) 
• Demand for labor (shortage meant higher wages in some industries) 
• Mining Opportunities (Gold, Silver, cooper, lead, zinc, quartz, tin) 
• Cattle Ranching/Sheepherding/ the Cowboy life
•  Farming (fertile prairie land, stronger strains of wheat, advanced technology: steel plow, mechanical reapers, barbed wire, windmills/water-pumps, irrigation)
•  Transcontinental Railroad (cheap and easy transportation of people and supplies) 
• Appeal of Wild West Culture (Turner Thesis)

HW

• The Turner Thesis Assignment
• Unit III Test (Ch. 13-16) on Monday 1/12