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The Settling of the West: Analysis Questions
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1.
What national policies did Republicans pursue during the Civil War and Reconstruction to
stimulate economic growth and consolidate a continental empire? What were the resulting
achievements and costs?
During the Civil War and Reconstruction eras, Republicans pursued national
policies such as the raising of the protective tariff, the Treaty of Kanagawa, the Burlingame
Treaty, and the gold standard to stimulate economic growth and consolidate a continental
empire. The resulting achievements of some of these treaties, tariffs, and other policies were
that American companies were able to trade with less competition a la import fees, the
United States could trade with Japan, U.S. missionaries in China and Chinese laborers
were on official terms, and it was easier to convert European dollars to American dollars at
a better conversion rate when both dollars were backed by gold. Some of the costs of these
pursuits were the Democratic backlash against tariffs, Japanese hostilities due to the fact
that America forced Japan to trade with it, and the having to change the entire currency of
the nation.
2.
How did the trans-Mississippi west develop economically in this era? What problems and
conflicts resulted?
The trans-Mississippi West developed economically in this era through laws such as
the Homestead Act and the Morrill Act. It also grew due to mining rushes, boomtowns, and
ranchers. The issues with most of these conflicts had to do with both the environment and
the native peoples already living on "white conquered" land. When white pioneers and
ranchers began settling and spreading in the West, they often knew close to nothing about
farming and killed much of the biodiversity in their acres. This had long-standing
repercussions all the way into the 1930s with the Dust Bowl. Also when the white settlers
came to the West, they kicked Native Americans off of their ancestral land which the
natives did not like. The natives ended up fighting back, and succeeded for a while, but
were eventually subdued onto reservations.
3.
Why did US policies toward Native Americans in this era result in so much violence? Why did
armed struggle continue as late as 1890, despite the US “peace policy” that was proclaimed in
the 1870s?
United States policies towards Native Americans resulted so violently during and
after the Civil War because the United States didn't take the Native Americans seriously.
The United States saw the Native Americans as uneducated, unknowledgeable savages who
didn't know how to help themselves. Because of this, all the policies that the United States
made with the Native Americans weren't taken seriously either and were held by corrupt
politicians and officials. Native Americans wanted their fair share of the treaties that they
weren't, in reality, benefiting from so they rebelled to get their rights, as signed by the
treaties. Despite the Native Americans clearly showing their prowess in many fields, the
United States' bureaucratic system still didn't take them seriously which led to years of
armed struggle as late as the 1890s.
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