The Homestead Act And Westward Expansion

Author : Irene Harris
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 149942244X
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Homestead Act and Westward Expansion written by Irene Harris and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2016-07-16 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 19th century, thousands of Americans left their homes behind and set out for a life on the western frontier. This period of westward expansion had a huge hand in shaping the culture and identity of the United States. This title explores the push and pull factors that encouraged settlers to migrate, including the Homestead Act and similar policies. The text uses historical context and primary sources to provide a comprehensive look at westward expansion. Written to support elementary social studies curricula, readers will walk away with an understanding of the 19th century American West and the legacy settling it left behind.

Author : P. Scott Corbett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781738998432
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book U.S. History written by P. Scott Corbett and published by . This book was released on 2023-04-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Printed in color. U.S. History is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of most introductory courses. The text provides a balanced approach to U.S. history, considering the people, events, and ideas that have shaped the United States from both the top down (politics, economics, diplomacy) and bottom up (eyewitness accounts, lived experience). U.S. History covers key forces that form the American experience, with particular attention to issues of race, class, and gender.

Author : David J. Wishart
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803247871
Total Pages : 962 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of the Great Plains written by David J. Wishart and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 962 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Wishart and the staff of the Center for Great Plains Studies have compiled a wide-ranging (pun intended) encyclopedia of this important region. Their objective was to 'give definition to a region that has traditionally been poorly defined,' and they have

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Download or read book Teaching with Documents written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard Edwards
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496202295
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Homesteading the Plains written by Richard Edwards and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2017-09 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Homesteading the Plains offers a bold new look at the history of homesteading, overturning what for decades has been the orthodox scholarly view. The authors begin by noting the striking disparity between the public's perception of homesteading as a cherished part of our national narrative and most scholars' harshly negative and dismissive treatment. Homesteading the Plains reexamines old data and draws from newly available digitized records to reassess the current interpretation's four principal tenets: homesteading was a minor factor in farm formation, with most Western farmers purchasing their land; most homesteaders failed to prove up their claims; the homesteading process was rife with corruption and fraud; and homesteading caused Indian land dispossession. Using data instead of anecdotes and focusing mainly on the nineteenth century, Homesteading the Plainsdemonstrates that the first three tenets are wrong and the fourth only partially true. In short, the public's perception of homesteading is perhaps more accurate than the one scholars have constructed. Homesteading the Plainsprovides the basis for an understanding of homesteading that is startlingly different from current scholarly orthodoxy. "--

Author : Reginald Horsman
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 0826266363
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feast Or Famine written by Reginald Horsman and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Drawing on the journals and correspondence of pioneers, Horsman examines more than a hundred years of history, recording components of the diets of various groups, including travelers, settlers, fur traders, soldiers, and miners. He discusses food-preparation techniques, including the development of canning, and foods common in different regions"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Jason Porterfield
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 9781404201781
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Homestead Act of 1862 written by Jason Porterfield and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2004-08-15 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Primary source documents discuss the creation of the Homestead Act that allowed pioneers headed West a piece of land to settle on and build a new life.

Author : Brian Q. Cannon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reopening the Frontier written by Brian Q. Cannon and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first ever history of the post-World War II homesteading program that provided frontier land to returning veterans. Reveals the many challenges they faced--and how they helped change our perceptions of the modern American West.

Author : Adam Wesley Dean
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 146961992X
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Agrarian Republic written by Adam Wesley Dean and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2015-02-16 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The familiar story of the Civil War tells of a predominately agricultural South pitted against a rapidly industrializing North. However, Adam Wesley Dean argues that the Republican Party's political ideology was fundamentally agrarian. Believing that small farms owned by families for generations led to a model society, Republicans supported a northern agricultural ideal in opposition to southern plantation agriculture, which destroyed the land's productivity, required constant western expansion, and produced an elite landed gentry hostile to the Union. Dean shows how agrarian republicanism shaped the debate over slavery's expansion, spurred the creation of the Department of Agriculture and the passage of the Homestead Act, and laid the foundation for the development of the earliest nature parks. Spanning the long nineteenth century, Dean's study analyzes the changing debate over land development as it transitioned from focusing on the creation of a virtuous and orderly citizenry to being seen primarily as a "civilizing" mission. By showing Republicans as men and women with backgrounds in small farming, Dean unveils new connections between seemingly separate historical events, linking this era's views of natural and manmade environments with interpretations of slavery and land policy.

Author : Nell Musolf
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 0756545714
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Split History of Westward Expansion in the United States written by Nell Musolf and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2013 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Describes the opposing viewpoints of the American Indians and settlers during the Westward Expansion"--Provided by publisher.