The 1890s were a important time in American History not only from many changes but also because of the closing with the West. The closing of the west frontier had many political, social, and economic effects. There was many problems that outbreak between people because the Native Americans on the West wanted to keep a hold on their tribal ways, while the East wanted to advance and move on with new professions. The West knew nothing about cities while that was what the East was becoming. There was a lot of conflict between the Whites and Native Americans, one of the big ones being the transcendental railroad. Before people traveled by horse and wagon, but now it would be faster and easier and a lot of whites traveled to the West and tried to …show more content…
claim the land for themselves. But, the Native Americans fought for their land because they did not want the whites to take over and they wanted to continue with their way of life.They continued to fight for their land but the whites were at an advantage because they had more technology so they could create better working weapons and they could transport more things with the railroad. So eventually, the Native Americans had to comply to the whites. Because of the rapid settlement in the West, the superintendent of the U.S. Census, announced the Western Frontier closed. This was a huge change for American history, and the closing of the Western Frontier was the end of the first time period of American history. The closing of the Western Frontier had political effects on America.
The growth of nationalism and things political were very dependent on the frontier advancing. The west changed the democracy that Jefferson had to a national republicanism of Monroe and the democracy of Andrew Jackson. The Western Frontier changed the political view many times as, politics were dependent at the time, on how much things would change. They had changed who was in charge and went from many different people who ran the government because of the effects and all that occurred due to the closing of the western …show more content…
frontier. The social effects from the Western Frontier closing, were basically around slavery.
In the essay, The significance of the Frontier in American History by Frederick Jackson Turner, it states a frontiersman said, “I believe this this Government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. It will become all of one thing or all of the other.”(Turner, Frederick Jackson. “The Significance of the Frontier in American History.” 1893.) This man is saying that they cannot divide the country like that and it is either that they are all going to be for slavery or they are all going to be against it. This affected the society because it showed how everyone knew that they were separated but they still had to be together the whole time. Also how they referred to themselves as “Land of the Free”, they cannot be called that. If they still had the slavery they would not be able to be called free because there were people that were not. There was also a lot of people that were constantly in and out of both the east and the west. In the essay, The significance of the Frontier in American History by Frederick Jackson Turner, it states, “It appears then that the universal disposition of Americans to emigrate to the western wilderness, in order to enlarge their dominion over inanimate nature, is the actual result of an expansive power which is inherent in them, and which by continually agitating all classes of society is constantly throwing a large portion of the whole population on the
extreme confines of the State, in order to gain space for its development.”(Turner, Frederick Jackson. “The Significance of the Frontier in American History.” 1893.) This is saying how they wanted more room for even more development so everyone was all staying together no matter social class and everything. The Western Frontier affected things from an economic perspective also, because there was many more people everywhere that had civilization. That means that they need more resources and it costs money. Especially if they were going from East to West or whichever, and they are using the railroad. The railroad needs oil to be able to move and that is expensive as well. So, with having a lot more people traveling and being around and needing to eat and have jobs, etc. it was using up more money from the economy. Also, the influence of frontier conditions in permitting lax business honor, inflated paper currency and wild-cat banking. Many people have tried wild-cat banking again but did not succeed. So, the continual recurrence of these areas of paper-money agitation is another evidence that the frontier can be isolated and studied as a factor in American history of the highest importance. People did not want the government to get involved in it all. They wanted to do it by themselves. In conclusion, the closing of the West affected America. It was a big time for the end of the time period in history for America as well. There were many political, social and economic effects from the closing of the western frontier. The closing of the West, made people realize how different the county became by the end of the period in American history.
The manipulation of the concept of slavery and Manifest Destiny before California’s entrance in the Union is pivotal to Smith’s analysis, and is seen as a staple in Morrison’s argument even though they get to this conclusion from different starting points. Morrison’s argument focuses on the American ideology of freedom and republicanism beginning from the American Revolutionary period to provide evidence on the topic of the expansion of slavery in the West as crucial to the events leading up to the Civil War. Whereas Smith views the onset of the Gold Rush as being a starting point for the move west. Michael Morrison in Slavery and the American West (Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina, 1999) argues that the common heritage of the American Revolution held Americans together until disagreements over the extension of slavery into the new acquired western territories led northerners and southerners to divergent understandings of the Revolution’s symbolic meanings. Each region became convinced that the other was disregarding the principles of liberty and equality established at the beginning of the
During the 19th century, America had an expanding idea of Manifest Destiny, where they would claim land all the way to the east coast. While the government and the citizens were focused on exploring new land, they were able to acquire much of the new land, introducing new people and ideas. Many of these people and ideas were vastly different than the original in the thirteen colonies, which frustrated many people. When these different people and beliefs collided, many disputes and disagreements were born, which intensified the results of sectionalism, unfortunately leading up the Civil War, having a huge impact on the country.
During the 1880's and 1890's, the United States focused on broadening their territory and expanding their country westward. During the early part of the decade, a vast amount of land was disappearing due to the fact that millions of people were moving west looking for gold mines and new farmland. The government was encouraging this move to happen in such ways as the Homestead Act of 1862 that gave 160-acre plots of land to settlers for an extremely low price. As people moved in that direction, more towns were built, leading to the need for railroads that spanned across the country. The very last spike of the transcontinental railroad was driven in during 1869, paving the way for easier travels across the country. There was a huge increase in commercial farming, which led to a market boom. This market increase caused an international market that was filled with competition. This international trading between a select few different nations was about the extent of the United States' foreign relations in the 1880's.
From the years 1800-1850 the nation was full of battles and prosperity. Territorial expansion was a cause in most of the battles, but also gained prosperity for the nation. There were many impacts on national unity between those time periods, but the main impact was territorial expansion. This is true because of the Louisiana Purchase, the purchase of Oregon territory, and the Mexican War.
During the early to mid eighteen hundreds, there was great unrest across the country over territorial expansion. Half of the nation believed that it would be beneficial to the country if we expanded, while the other half were firmly opposed to expansion. Within the century, the United States managed to claim Texas, California, and the majority of Indian-owned lands. Opinions on this expansion were mixed around the country. Polls taken during the time period show that the majority of the south and west supported expansion, while northerns were opposed to it. (Document B) This was because the northerners had different values and beliefs than the southerners of westerners. Both the opponents and supporters of territorial expansion during the time period between 1800 and 1855, had a tremendous influence on shaping federal government policy. However, it can be argued that the supporters of territorial expansion had the largest impact. They were able to sway the federal government to create policies and new laws that were in favor of supporter’s beliefs.
This decade, surrounded by great periods in US history such as the Gold Rush and the Civil War, was in direct correlation with everything around it, being greatly influenced by the Gold Rush and directly influencing the Civil War as well as making ripples throughout history. Understanding influential periods before the crisis of the crisis of the 1850’s, the substance of the discussion, and the ominous effects of the 1850’s crisis, it is difficult to deny the importance of that decade in American
After the American Revolution, slavery began to decrease in the North, just as it was becoming more popular in the South. By the turn of the century, seven of the most Northern states had abolished slavery. During this time, a surge of democratic reform swept the North to the West, and there were demands for political equality, economic and social advances for all Americans. Northerners said that slavery revoked the human right of being a free person and when new territories became available i...
After the Turner revolt, the topic of slavery took over American politics (3,91). Congressman David Wilmot suggested that legislation prohibit slavery in new territories that were conquered from the victory in a war with Mexico (3,91). Wilmot acted in hopes of stopping slavery’s expansion westward but his movement did not pass with the Senate and was therefore disregarded (3,91). The South’s population was slowly becoming overshadowed by the North’s, leaving little room to stop anti-slavery legislation (3,91). When California was admitted as a free state in 1850, the US was left with no slave state to balance this addition and some southerners desired a separation of slave states from the union (3,92). Congressmen and senators started to fear their political opponents tremendously; tension was slowly building up (3,92). The Compromise of 1850 admitted California as a free state but also passed a law making it painless for slave-owners to recover their escaped slaves from free states (3,92). Congress then passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act which allowed inhabitants to decide whether Kansas would be a free state or a slave state (3,92). In hopes of victory, the opposing sides invaded the territory which was after nick-named “Bleeding Kansas” by the easterners (3,92). This unsettled region would be the perfect setting to launch a crusade against slavery (3, 92). This scheme was exactly what John Brown had in mind (3,92).
Throughout American history, politics changed with the times, forming and growing as new situations and environments took place. However, the most drastic differences occurred between 1815 and 1840. During this time, the North and South develop different economic systems, which created political differences between the regions. Between 1815 and 1840, the number of eligible voters drastically increased as politicians utilized a wider variety of campaigning methods in order to appeal to as many voters as possible, all essentially caused by economic growth. Politics grow to include universal white male suffrage, a strong national government, and nationalism versus sectionalism. Economic Growth (American System, Industrial Revolution, Sectional Economies, Internal Improvements & Inventions) caused the political party changes.
Northerners and Southerners who moved west were in search of a better life and personal economic gain; were they had failed before in the east, they believed they would do better in the west. The Panic of 1837 was a motivation to head west for many people, but the journey west had begun before then. This prompted the development of “free soil,” in which Northerners opposed the expansion of slavery. Southerners viewed free soil as a threatening policy primarily because of the off balance that new free states that were being admitted to the US would cause between the more unequal slave states’ representation in Congress.
Westward movement is the populating of lands, by the Europeans, in what is now known as the United States. The chief resolution of the westward expansion is economic betterment. The United States story begins with westward expansion and even before the Revolutionary war, early settlers were migrating westward into what is now known as the states of Kentucky,Tennessee, parts of the Ohio Valley and the South. Westward Expansion was slowed down by the French and the Native Americans, however the Louisiana Purchase significantly improved the expansion efforts. Westward expansion was enabled because of wars, the displacement of Native American Indians, buying land, and treaties. This paper will discuss the effects of westward expansion on domestic politics and on American relations with other nations.
The significance of Frontier in American History is a thesis paper that was written and delivered by Jackson Turner on 12th July 1893. Turner delivered this paper during a yearly meeting of the fledging American Historical Association that was being held at Chicago. I believe this paper had a lot of impact on the study of American History specifically in colleges and universities. The original paper was informed from twelve sources. Turner wrote this paper and formed the frontier theory following the work of Achille Loria- An Italian economist- who proposed that the key to changes in human society was free land and that America would be the best place to research on this proposal. The other event that precipitated Turners paper was the announcement of superintendent in 1890 census which claimed that there is insufficient free land in US to allow frontier to feature in the census report as had been previously done until 1790 (Turnver, 3).
The years after the civil war left one half of America, the north, satisfied and the other half, the south, mostly dissatisfied. Therefore the last third of the nineteenth century, 1865-1900, was a time period in which America was mending, repairing, improving, reshaping, and reconstructing its society, economy, culture, and policies. Basically it was changing everything it stood for. This continual change can be seen in the following events that took place during this time. These events are both causes and effects of why America is what it is today. These are some examples: the reconstruction of the south, the great movement towards the west, the agricultural revolution, the rise of industrialism, the completion of the transcontinental railroad, and America's growth to gaining world power. All of these are reasons and events that characterize America as being an ever-changing nation.
The period in American history between 1900 and 1920 was a very turbulent one. Civil unrest was brewing as a result of many pressures placed upon the working class. Although wealth was accumulating at an astonishing rate in America, most people at the lower economic levels were not benefiting from any of it. Worst of all for them, the federal government seemed to be on the side of the corporations. Their helpless situation and limited options is why the coal strike of 1902 is so important.
“By 1840 almost 7 million Americans had migrated westward in hopes of securing land and being prosperous” (Westward Expansion Facts. Westward Expansion Facts. N.p., n.d Web. 16 Sept. 2016). This movement is called Western Expansion. The movement brought new beginnings and hope to many northerners and southerners. Western expansion not only affected the lives of many Americans, but the Natives living on the land. Throughout the 1860s to 1890s, the movement West altered the lives of Native Americans forever. Settlers deconstructed the Native Americans land in the mindset to grow their economy. Americans attacked and killed large amounts of Natives for no reasonable reason. Also, in hopes to Americanize the natives, they taught and imposed their