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CHAPTER 19 | NEW FRONTIERS: SOUTH AND WEST | OVERVIEW

CHAPTER TIMELINE
1858	Gold discovered near Pike’s Peak
1859	Comstock Lode discovered in Nevada
1862	Homestead Act
1864	Nevada became a state
1866	First of the long drives
1867	Report on the Condition of the Indian Tribes
1867–1868	Indian Peace Commission settlements
1873	Joseph Glidden invented barbed wire
1876	Battle of Little Bighorn
1876	Colorado joined the union
1877	Gustavus Swift improved refrigeration
1878	First large movement of freedmen to Kansas
1881	Helen Hunt Jackson, A Century of Dishonor
1883	Civil rights cases
1883–1884	Fence-Cutters’War
1887	Dawes Severalty Act
1889	North and South Dakota, Montana, and Washington became states
1890	Idaho and Wyoming gained statehood
1890	Battle of Wounded Knee
1890	Mississippi constitution disfranchised blacks
1891–1894	Cripple Creek gold strike
1893	Turner frontier thesis presented
1896	Utah admitted to the union
1896	Plessy v. Ferguson
1901	Spindletop gusher
1901	Newlands Reclamation Act
1906	Burke Act
1907	Oklahoma became a state
1912	Arizona and New Mexico gained statehood
1924	All Indians became citizens

CHAPTER OBJECTIVES

After you finish reading and studying this chapter, you should be able to:

Explain the concept of the New South, its development, and how it affected the South after the Civil War.

Account for the rise of the Bourbons to power in the South and explain their impact on the South.

Discuss the causes and process of disfranchisement of blacks in the South.

Compare the views of Washington and Du Bois on the place of blacks in American life.

Describe the Indian wars and explain the new Indian policy of 1887.

Account for the rise and decline of the cattle industry.

Describe the problems of farming on the western frontier.

Explain the importance of Turner’s theory of the significance of the frontier in American history.