Westward expansion

  1. Manifest Destiny
    1. Imperialism
    2. West built on natural resources
      1. minerals
      2. land
        1. Morrill Act 1862
        2. Homestead Act 1862
        3. Railroad Land Grants (1862-1872)
        4. Mining Act 1872
        5. Timber Culture Act 1873
        6. Desert Land Act 1877
        7. Timber and Stone Act 1878
      3. Conservation movement
        1. National parks
        2. John Muir
    3. Types of westward expansion
      1. Trails
        1. Oregon Trail (1834)
        2. California Trail (1841)
        3. Santa Fe Trail (ca. 1800)
      2. Railroads
  2. Development of the West
    1. two major interpretations
      1. West/Frontier as a Process
        1. Fredrick Jackson Turner's Frontier Thesis
        2. Stages of development
          1. Indian Trader/trapper
          2. ranchers
          3. farmers
          4. rise of manufacture/industries
      2. West/Frontier as a region
        1. Walter Prescott Webb
      3. Donald Worster
        1. Pastoral West = cowboy/sheepherder
        2. Hydraulic West = irrigator and water engineer
    2. Capitalism