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CHAPTER 19 | NEW FRONTIERS: SOUTH AND WEST | OVERVIEW

CHAPTER TIMELINE
1858	Gold discovered at Pike’s Peak
1862	Homestead Act
1866	First of the long drives
1867–1868	Indian Peace Commission settlements
1873	Joseph Glidden invented barbed wire
1874–1876	Great Sioux War
1877	Gustavus Swift improved refrigeration
1883	Civil rights cases
1887	Dawes Severalty Act
1889	North and South Dakota, Montana, and Washington became states
1890	Battle of Wounded Knee
1890	Mississippi Constitution incorporates disenfranchisement of blacks
1890	Census showed frontier closed
1893	Turner frontier thesis presented
1895	B. T. Washington’s “Atlanta Compromise” speech
1896	Plessy v. Ferguson
1901	Newlands Reclamation Act
1910	Disenfranchisement of blacks essentially completed in southern states
1912	Arizona and New Mexico became states (last of the original forty-eight)

CHAPTER OBJECTIVES

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

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

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

Explain the causes and process of disenfranchisement of blacks in the South.

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

Understand the process of settling the West.

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

Assess the importance of violence in the culture of the West.

Appraise the problems of farming and ranching on the western frontier.

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