Settlement of America
Settlement of America
Editors: Crutchfield, James, Moulton, Candy and Del Bene, Terry A.
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: Routledge
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ISBN: 978-0-7656-1984-6
Category: History - United States -- History
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Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
The Settlement of America enables students to consider multiple viewpoints (Native Americans, explorers, fur traders, settlers, immigrants, women, politicians, and businessmen); appreciate diverse historical perspectives; understand historical continuity and change, and recognize how the movement westward forever changed the national character.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: Westward Expansion from Jamestown to the Closing of the Frontier
- A
- Abert, James William
- Adams, John Quincy
- Adams-Onís Treaty (1819)
- Adobe Walls, Battles of
- Alamance, Battle of
- Alamo, The
- Alaska Purchase (1867)
- Allison Commission
- American Fur Company
- American Horse
- Apache
- Arapaho
- Arikara
- Arikara War
- Armijo, Manuel
- Army of the West
- Arts and Letters
- Ashley, William Henry
- Astor, John Jacob
- Astoria
- Atkinson, Henry
- Attacullaculla
- Audubon, John James
- Austin, Moses
- Austin, Stephen F.
- B
- Baker, James
- Barbed Wire
- Bartlett, John Russell
- Beale Wagon Road
- Bear Flag Revolt
- Beaver
- Becknell, William
- Beckwourth, James P.
- Bent, St. Vrain & Company
- Bent Brothers
- Benton, Thomas Hart
- Bent's Fort
- Bidwell, John
- Billings, Frederick
- Bison, American
- Black Hawk
- Black Hawk War (1832)
- Black Hills Expeditions
- Black Kettle
- Blackfoot
- Blue Water Creek, Battle of
- Bodmer, Karl
- Bonneville, Benjamin Louis
- Boone, Daniel
- Boonesborough, Kentucky
- Boudinot, Elias
- Boundary Commissions
- Bowie, James
- Bozeman, John
- Bozeman Trail
- Bridger, Jim
- Bridger Trail
- Buffalo Soldiers
- Burnet, David G.
- Burnett, Peter Hardeman
- Burr, Aaron
- Butterfield Stage
- C
- Calhoun, John C.
- California, Conquest of
- California Trail
- Campbell, Robert
- Carlisle Indian Industrial School
- Carrington Family
- Carson, Kit
- Cashman, Nellie
- Catlin, George
- Cattle Brands
- Cattle Frontier
- Central Pacific Railroad
- Charbonneau, Jean Baptiste
- Charbonneau, Toussaint
- Cherokee
- Cherokee Trail
- Cherokee Wars
- Cheyenne
- Cheyenne-Deadwood Trail
- Chickasaw
- Chinese Immigration
- Chisholm Trail
- Chivington, John M.
- Choctaw
- Chouteau Family
- Chuck Wagons
- Clark, William
- Clay, Henry
- Clyman, James
- Cochise (Cheis)
- Cody, William Frederick (Buffalo Bill)
- Colter, John
- Comanche
- Compromise of 1850
- Conestoga Wagon
- Cooke, Jay
- Cooke, Philip St. George
- Cordoba, Treaty of (1821)
- Corps of Topographical Engineers
- Cox, Ross
- Crazy Horse
- Creek
- Creek Wars
- Crockett, Davy
- Crook, George
- Crooks, Ramsay
- Crow
- Cumberland Gap
- Custer, Elizabeth Bacon
- Custer, George Armstrong
- Custer Expedition
- D
- Davis, Jefferson
- Dawes, Henry L.
- Dawes Severalty Act (1887)
- De Smet, Pierre-Jean
- Denver and Rio Grande Railroad
- Disease
- Doak's Stand, Treaty of (1820)
- Dodge, Henry
- Donation Land Claim Act (1850)
- Doniphan, Alexander William
- Donner Party
- Douglas, Stephen A.
- Drouillard, George
- Dull Knife
- Dunbar-Hunter and Freeman-Custis Expeditions
- Duniway, Abigail Scott
- E
- Eastman, Seth, and Mary Eastman
- Elections, Presidential
- Emigration Societies
- Emory, William H.
- Empresario System
- End-of-Track Towns
- F
- Factory System
- Fallen Timbers, Battle of
- Fannin, James Walker
- Filibusters
- Firearms
- Fitzpatrick, Thomas “Broken Hand”
- Flathead
- Fontenelle, Lucien
- Forks of the Ohio
- Fort Benton
- Fort Bridger
- Fort Clatsop
- Fort Dilts
- Fort Hall
- Fort Jackson, Treaty of (1814)
- Fort Kearny (Nebraska)
- Fort Laramie
- Fort Laramie, Treaty of (1868)
- Fort Leavenworth
- Fort Mandan
- Fort Osage
- Fort Phil Kearny (Wyoming)
- Fort Robinson
- Fort Snelling
- Fort Stanwix, Treaty of (1768)
- Fort Stanwix, Treaty of (1784)
- Fort Union (New Mexico)
- Fort Union (North Dakota)
- Fort Vancouver
- Fort Wise, Treaty of (1861)
- Forts and Fortification
- Forty-Niners
- Fraser, Simon
- Fredonian Rebellion
- Frémont, John C.
- Frontier Theory
- Fur Trade
- G
- Gadsden Purchase (1853)
- Gall
- Garrard, Hector Lewis
- Gass, Patrick
- Geronimo
- Ghost Dance
- Glass, Hugh
- Glenn-Fowler Expedition
- Glidden, Joseph
- Gold Rushes
- Goliad, Battle of
- “Gone to Texas”
- Goodnight, Charles
- Goodnight-Loving Trail
- Graduation Act (1854)
- Grant, Ulysses S.
- Grattan Massacre
- Gray, Robert
- Great American Desert
- Greeley, Horace
- Green River
- Greenville, Treaty of (1795)
- Gregg, Josiah
- Grinnell, George Bird
- Guadalupe Hidalgo, Treaty of (1848)
- Gwin, William McKendree
- H
- Harney, William S.
- Harrison, William Henry
- Hayden, Ferdinand
- Hayden Survey
- Heap, Gwinn Harris
- Henry, Andrew
- Hidatsa
- Hide Hunters
- Holladay, Ben
- Holmes, William Henry
- Homestead Act (1862)
- Hopewell, Treaty of (1785)
- Hopi
- Horse Creek Treaty (1851)
- Houston, Sam
- Howard, Oliver O.
- Hudson's Bay Company
- Hunt, Wilson Price
- I
- Independence, Missouri
- Indian Captivity
- Indian Policy
- Indian Removal Act (1830)
- Indians
- J
- Jackson, Andrew
- Jackson, David E.
- Jackson, William Henry
- Jackson's Indian Policy
- Jefferson, Thomas
- Jefferson Barracks
- Johnson County War
- Johnston, Albert Sidney
- Jones, Thomas ap Catesby
- Joseph, Chief
- Judah, Theodore D.
- Judah Survey
- K
- Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
- Kearny, Stephen Watts
- Keil, William
- Kern Brothers
- King, Clarence
- Kiowa
- L
- Laclède Liguest, Pierre de
- Lakota
- Lamar, Mirabeau B.
- Land Speculation Companies
- Lander, Frederick W.
- Lander Cutoff
- Larkin, Thomas Oliver
- Leavenworth, Henry
- Leavenworth and Pike's Peak Express
- Leonard, Zenas
- Lewis, Meriwether
- Lewis and Clark Expedition
- Lisa, Manuel
- Little Turtle
- Long, Stephen H.
- Long Expedition
- Long Hunters
- Long Walk
- Louisiana Purchase (1803)
- Louisiana Territory
- Loving, Oliver
- Lozen
- M
- MacKenzie, Donald
- Mackenzie, Ranald Slidell
- Magoffin, James Wiley
- Mandan
- Mangas Coloradas
- Manifest Destiny
- Manypenny, George W.
- Marcy, Randolph Barnes
- Martínez, Antonio José
- Maximilian, Prince Alexander Philip
- Maxwell Land Grant Company
- McKenney, Thomas L.
- McKenzie, Kenneth
- McLoughlin, John
- Mears, Otto
- Medicine Lodge Creek, Treaty of (1867)
- Meek, Joseph L.
- Meeker, Nathan
- Meeker Massacre
- Mercer, Asa
- Mexican Boundary Survey
- Mexican Land Grants
- Mexican-American War
- Mier Expedition
- Miles, Nelson A.
- Military Establishment
- Miller, Alfred Jacob
- Mining Industry
- Missouri Compromise (1820)
- Missouri Fur Company
- Monroe, James
- Moran, Thomas
- Mormon Battalion
- Mormon Church
- Mormon Trail
- Morris, Esther Hobart
- Mountain Meadows Massacre
- Mullan, John
- Mullan Road
- N
- Nashville
- Natchez Trace
- Navajo
- New Echota, Treaty of (1835)
- Nez Percé
- Nicolett, Joseph Nicolas
- North, Frank Joshua
- North, Luther Hedden
- North West Company
- Northern Pacific Railroad
- O
- Oatman Girls’ Captivity
- O'Fallon, Benjamin
- Ogden, Peter Skene
- Omaha
- Open Range
- Ordway, John
- Oregon Question
- Oregon Trail
- Osage
- O'Sullivan, John L.
- Ouray
- Overland Mail
- Overland Telegraph Company
- Overland Trail
- Overland Trails
- P
- Pacific Railway Act (1862)
- Pacific Railway Act (1864)
- Panic of 1873
- Paris, Treaty of (1763)
- Parker, Cynthia Ann
- Parker, Quanah
- Pattie, James Ohio
- Pawnee
- Pawnee Scouts
- Perpetual Emigrating Fund
- Picotte, Susan La Flesche
- Pierre's Hole, Battle of
- Pike, Zebulon M.
- Pike Expedition
- Pilcher, Joshua
- Point Pleasant, Battle of
- Polk, James K.
- Pontiac
- Pony Express
- Powder River Expedition (1865)
- Powder River Expedition (1876)
- Powell, John Wesley
- Prairie du Chien, Treaties of (1825, 1829, 1830)
- Prairie Schooner
- Preemption Act (1841)
- Preuss, Charles
- Price, Sterling
- Proclamation of 1763
- Provost, Étienne
- Pueblo
- R
- Railroad Land Grants
- Railroad Surveys, Transcontinental
- Railroads
- Red Bird
- Red Cloud
- Red Cloud's War
- Rendezvous
- Riley, Bennet
- Robidoux Family
- Rocky Mountain Fur Company
- Roman Nose
- Rose, Edward
- Ross, Alexander
- Russell, Majors, and Waddell
- Russell, Osborne
- Ruxton, George A.F.
- S
- Sacagawea
- San Ildefonso, Treaty of (1800)
- San Jacinto, Battle of
- San Lorenzo, Treaty of (1795)
- Sand Creek Massacre
- Santa Anna, Antonio López de
- Santa Fe Trail
- Santee Sioux
- Santee Sioux Uprising
- Sappington, John
- Sarpy, Peter A.
- Satanta
- Sauk
- Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe
- Scott, Winfield
- Shawnee
- Sheridan, Philip H.
- Sherman, William Tecumseh
- Shoshone
- Simpson, George
- Sioux
- Sitting Bull
- Sloat, John D.
- Smith, Jackson, & Sublette
- Smith, Jedediah
- Smith, Joseph
- Smoky Hill Trail
- South Pass
- Spalding, Henry H., and Eliza Hart Spalding
- Spotted Tail
- St. Clair, Arthur
- St. Louis, Missouri
- St. Vrain, Cerán
- Stansbury Expedition
- Stevens Treaty (1855)
- Stockton, Robert Field
- Stuart, Robert
- Sublette Brothers
- Summit Springs, Battle of
- Sutter, John A.
- Sutter's Fort
- T
- Table Rock Treaty (1853)
- Taos Revolt
- Taylor, Zachary
- Tecumseh
- Territorial System
- Texan Santa Fe Expedition
- Texas Annexation
- Texas Rangers
- Texas Revolution and Independence
- Texas Trail
- Thames, Battle of the
- Thief Treaty (1863)
- Thompson, David
- Timber Culture Act (1873)
- Tools
- Trail of Tears
- Trans-Appalachian Frontier
- Transportation, Land
- Transportation, Water
- Travis, William Barret
- Tyler, John
- U
- Union Colony
- United States Exploring Expedition
- United States Geological Survey
- Utah War
- Ute
- V
- Van Buren, Martin
- Vasquez, Louis
- Victorio
- Vigilantism
- Villard, Henry
- W
- Walker, Joseph R.
- Wallace, William “Bigfoot”
- War of 1812
- Warren, Gouverneur Kemble
- Washakie
- Washita Engagement
- Watauga Settlements
- Watie, Stand
- Watson, Ellen “Cattle Kate”
- Wayne, Anthony
- Wells, Fargo & Company
- Wells, William
- Western Trail
- Westport and Westport Landing, Missouri
- Whitman, Marcus, and Narcissa Prentiss Whitman
- Whitney, Asa
- Whoop-Up Trail
- Wilkinson, James
- Williams, William “Old Bill”
- Winnemucca, Sarah
- Wolfskill, William
- Woman Suffrage
- Wootton, Richens Lacy “Uncle Dick”
- Wounded Knee
- Wyeth, Nathaniel Jarvis
- Y
- Yellowstone Surveying Expeditions
- Young, Brigham
- Young, Ewing
- Yuma
- Z
- Zuni
- Primary Documents
- Proclamation of 1763, King George III
- Northwest Ordinance (1787)
- Interview with Daniel Boone (1797)
- Louisiana Purchase Treaty (1803)
- Lewis and Clark Reach the Pacific (1805)
- Zebulon Pike's Journey Up the Mississippi River (1805–1806) and to the Far American Southwest (1806–1807)
- How to Make a Beaver Hat (1807)
- Indian Removal Act (1830)
- On the Oregon Trail: A Firsthand Account (1834)
- Letter from Narcissa Whitman on the Journey West (1836)
- Bent's Fort, Colorado: Two Descriptions (1839, 1847)
- Annexation of Texas (1845)
- War with Mexico: Message from President James K. Polk to Congress (1846)
- Oregon Treaty (1846)
- U.S. Occupation of New Mexico: Speech by Stephen Watts Kearny (1846)
- Firsthand Account of a Donner Party Survivor (1847)
- Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848)
- Gadsden Purchase Treaty (1853)
- Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
- Homestead Act (1862)
- Pacific Railway Act (1862)
- Alaska Purchase Treaty (1867)
- Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868)
- Surviving the Elements on the Journey West: A Firsthand Account (1873–1874)
- Black Migration: Congressional Testimony of Benjamin Singleton (1880)
- Massacre at Wounded Knee, the Sioux Account (1891)
- Annexation of Hawaii (1898)
- Fur Trade Rendezvous (1902)
- Chronology
- Master Bibliography
- Books
- Web Sites