After a review of the populist movement in the 1890's, we shifted our focus to another issue during the Gilded Age, westward expansion and the impact on native people. With the expansion of railroads, the desire for farmland, the discovery of gold and silver, and massive immigration, conflict arose between American Indians and white settlers during much of the 19th century. Compounding difficulties for native people, the federal government established a series of ineffective policies to deal with this conflict, from a system of reservations midcentury, to allotment and assimilation in the later part of the 19th century.
Assignment: Read 160-68 (questions). Quiz Wednesday!
American History
Today we finished our summary of the populist movement and the Wizard of Oz as a political allegory for the events and people of the late 19th century. There is out of class assignment today.
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