hunting‚ or building while the weather allowed these tasks stresses the urgency of each day’s work for pioneer families. Wilder’s coordination of outdoor work and family growth emphasizes the communal and environmental nature of life on the Ingalls homestead. Wilder captures the essence of the pioneer spirit in her books‚ affirming the independent determination of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s 1841 essay “Self Reliance” by comments like Ma’s‚ that “a body makes his own luck” in These Happy Golden Years(1943)
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Jackie Nichols Week 19 Rewrite‚ Prompt 3 The frontier was mainly a wild place until men went looking for gold and land‚ justifying their radical and violent attempts to gain land by what they believed to be Manifest Destiny. What whites discovered as they moved west were tribes of Indians settled on what they claimed as “their” land. This want for land was driven by the second Industrial Revolution‚ prompting the removal of Indians and war to commence. The second Industrial Revolution pioneered
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the Civil War there were many changes happening throughout the country. Not only was the country recovering from the money lost because of the war‚ but also many families were grieving the loss of loved ones as well as trying to reestablish their homesteads. Following the war the rich kept getting richer and the poor continued to struggle and grow poorer or deeper in debt. The railroad was making vast expansions toward the West that was a pro and a con to rural farmers. The farmers needed the railroad
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January 13‚ 2013 Chapter 26 Notes (1865-1896) * The Clash Of Cultures on the Plains 1) As the White settlers began to populate the Great West‚ the Indians‚ caught in the middle‚ increasingly turned against each other‚ were infected with White man’s diseases‚ and were stuck battling to hunt the few remaining bison 2) The Sioux‚ displaced by Chippewas from the their ancestral lands at the headwaters of the Mississippi in the late 1700s‚ expanded at the expense of the Crows‚ Kiowas‚ and
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Historical Fiction Narrative My name is Elizabeth‚ I’m 15 and I’m moving to the West with my family. We are going there for something called the Homestead Act. The Homestead Act is when you get 160 acres of land for free for 5 years. During the 5 years‚ you must grow crops. But my father is going to the West for mining gold. It’s May 8th‚ 1861. Tomorrow my family and I leave for the West. We are going by railroad. It will be my first time going on the railroad. I’m so excited yet nervous. I
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1 Way of Life in the West American History 1865 to Present April 2‚ 2014
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presented a biography that opened up to the many immigrants who had originated in different countries‚ as well as other states with in the United States as well as a story that coincided with everyone across the United States who was attempting to homestead. (Ise‚
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Analyze the impact of immigration on American life during the 1890s The 1890s have brought immigration have changes the American life. It has boosted the economic perspective as well as the economy‚ caused a surplus in population and has caused government to overreact by creating an amplitude off laws. To begin with‚ the economy during the 1890s flourished. The increase of population such as the Chinese moving to California‚ made the farmers get an easy source of cheap labor. That means less
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and harsh seasons. The winters are bitterly cold‚ while the summer temperatures can reach above 100 °F. Because of the vast amount of land available‚ for a brief period in the early 1900s‚ they attracted a lot of people because of the Homestead Act. Homestead Act allowed people to gain title to public land if they lived on it for five years and improved it. Because of the past that McNickle had experienced in Montana‚ he sets an illusional mood where everything would conflict with the reality or
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title of the film gives reference to a time when cattle owners were still forcing free grazers from one open grazing area to another because not all land was homesteaded. Some enterprising farmers and cattle raisers‚ mainly Denton Baxter‚ filed homestead claims to own a specific area of land. Others‚ like Boss and Charlie‚ were free grazers who unsurprisingly clashed with the homesteaders. Instead of villainizing the free grazers‚ who are actually trespassing on homesteaders’ private property‚ they
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