Building the Americas

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The Americas in the Age of Independence (28)

• Building the Americas

Pawnees
Bolivar
Louis Riel
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The Americas Learning Outcomes

• Be able to explain the power of ideology in
  shaping the post-revolutionary regimes in the
  Americas
• Account for efforts to create federal systems in
  Latin America
• Be able to relate patterns of domination by
  Euro-American peoples in the American hemisphere
• Understand the increasing interdependence of the
  worlds people that occurs in the 19th century

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The Americas in the Age of Independence

• Fatt Hing Chins career path illuminates what
• aspects of the 19th century Pacific
  World?

Chinese immigrants work on railroad in California
in the 1890s
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The Building of American States

• The United States Westward Expansion Civil War
• Westward Expansion Manifest Destiny

Westward expansion of the US during the 19th
century
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The United States Westward Expansion Civil War

• Westward Expansion Manifest Destiny

John Gast Manifest Destiny, 1872 (Library of
Congress)
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The United States Westward Expansion Civil War

• Westward Expansion Manifest Destiny
• Conflict with Indigenous Peoples

Plains Indian Camp, South Dakota (1890)
Young Omahaw, War Eagle, Little Missouri and
Pawnees Charles B. King, 1821
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The United States Westward Expansion Civil War

• Westward Expansion Manifest Destiny
• The Mexican-American War

The United States 1848
North America, 1821
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The United States Westward Expansion Civil War

• Sectional Conflict The Civil War

Dead Union Soldiers at Antietam, 1862
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The Building of American States

• The Canadian Dominion Independence without War
• Autonomy Division
• The War of 1812
• Dominion
• Durham Report,
• 1839

The Dominion of Canada in the 19th century
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The Building of American States

• Latin America Fragmentation Political
  Experimentation
• Creole Elites
• Political Instability
• 5 of population
• Land use
• Conflicts with
• Indigenous Peoples
• Caudillos
• Juan Manuel de Rosas
• Argentina
• Liberty vs. Order

Latin America in the nineteenth century
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The Building of American States

• Latin America Fragmentation Political
  Experimentation
• Mexico and Independence
• Mexico War Reform
• Mexico Revolution, Constitution 1917
• Emiliano Zapata
• Pancho Villa

Emiliano Zapata, 1879-1919
Pancho Villa
Benito Juarez La Reforma
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Latin America Fragmentation Political
Experimentation

• Sources From The Past Ponciano Arriaga Calls For
  Land Reform
• Ponciano Arriagas call for land reform reflects
  what issues in Latin American society?

One of the most deeply rooted evils of our
country an evil that merits the close attention
of legislators when they frame our fundamental
law is the monstrous division of landed
property - A Mexican Radical
Ponciano Arriaga
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American Economic Development

• Migration to the Americas
• Industrial Migrants
• Plantation Migrants

Chinese immigrant family in California
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American Economic Development

• Economic Expansion in the United States
• British Capital
• Railroads

Susquehanna Bridge
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American Economic Development

• Economic Expansion in the United States
• British Capital
• Railroads
• Space Time
• Economic Growth

United States Railroads, 1870-90
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American Economic Development

• Canadian Prosperity
• The National Policy
• U.S. Investment

Parliament Hill Ottowa Founded 1855
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The Dominion of Canada in the 19th century
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American Economic Development

• Latin American Dependence
• British Investment
• Attempted Industrialization

Bridge over Santa Rosa River in Mexico
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American Cultural Social Diversity

• Multicultural Society in the United States
• Native Peoples

Carlisle Indian School
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American Cultural Social Diversity

• Multicultural Society in the United States
• Native Peoples
• Freed Slaves
• Women
• Migrants
• Ethnic Diversity

Chinatown in New York City
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American Cultural Social Diversity

• Sources From The Past
• The Meaning of Freedom for an Ex-Slave

If you fail to pay us for faithful labors in the
past we can have little faith in your promises in
the future. We trust the good Maker has opened
your eyes to the wrongs which you and your
fathers have done to me and my fathers, in making
us toil for you for generations without
recompense. - Jourdan Anderson
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American Cultural Social Diversity

• Canadian Cultural Contrasts
• The Métis Louis Riel
• French legacy
• Northwest Rebellion, 1885
• Outcome?
• Long-term consequences

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American Cultural Social Diversity

• Ethnicity, Identity, Gender in Latin America
• Migration Cultural Diversity

We are not Europeans we are not Indians we are
but a mixed species of aborigines and Spaniards.
Americans by birth and Europeans by law -
Selected Works of Simón Bolívar
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American Cultural Social Diversity

• Ethnicity, Identity, Gender in Latin America
• Migration Cultural Diversity
• Gauchos

I owe nothin to nobody I dont ask for
shelter, or give it and from now on,
nobody better try to lead me around by a
rope. - The Gaucho Martín Fierro
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American Cultural Social Diversity

• Ethnicity, Identity, Gender in Latin America
• Migration Cultural Diversity
• Gauchos
• Male Domination

La Calandria Argentina
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Diversity in Latin America

• Complex social structure, based on racial
  background
• Europeans, creoles, native peoples, African
  slaves, and combinations thereof
• Increasing migration in 19th century from Asia
• Conflict between cosmopolitan cities backward
  rural areas
• Symbol of rural culture the gaucho cowboy

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The Americas in the Age of Independence Key
Words Terms

• Manifest Destiny
• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
• Emancipation Proclamation
• Dominion of Canada, 1867
• Gran Colombia
• caudillos
• La Reforma
• Simón Bolívar
• Juan Manuel de Rosas
• Antonio López de Santa Ana
• Benito Juárez
• Porfirio Díaz
• Mexican Revolution

• Emiliano Zapata
• Francisco (Pancho) Villa
• Plantation migration
• railroad time
• The National Policy (Canada)
• Seneca Falls Convention, 1848
• Carlisle Indian School
• métis
• Louis Riel
• Northwest Rebellion
• Gauchos
• machismo

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The Americas Review Learning Outcomes

• Be able to explain the power of ideology in
  shaping the post-revolutionary regimes in the
  Americas
• Account for efforts to create federal systems in
  Latin America
• Be able to relate patterns of domination by
  Euro-American peoples in the American hemisphere
• Understand the increasing interdependence of the
  worlds people that occurs in the 19th century

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The Americas in the Age of Independence Summary

• Independent American states sought to construct
  new societies on Enlightenment principles
• Independent American states faced vast challenges
  large territories, diverse populations, social
  cultural differences.
• The United States became an expansive republic.
• Descendents of Europeans subdued indigenous
  American peoples driving them on to marginal
  lands.
• North Americans established agrarian economies,
  exploited natural resources, launched processes
  of industrialization accepted streams of
  European Asian immigrants as laborers required
  after the abolition of slavery.
• Social, economic, cultural tensions increased.