#Westward Expansion

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Meriwether Lewis (left) & William Clark (right)

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Did anyone else read Little House on the Prairie as a child and instantly become a foaming-at-the-mouth hoe for calico fabrics???

[teachanarchy]

The Hidden Meanings in Nature Art: Crash Course Art History #9

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sometimes i study late at night because that’s how i focus and then i lose my marbles so here’s everything i got from learning about the mormons

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Elevation of Officers Quarters, Hospital, etc. at Camp Halleck, Nevada, 12/17/1877. 

Record Group 77: Records of the Office of the Chief of Engineers

Series: Plans of Military Posts in the United States

File Unit: Plans for Fort Halleck, Nevada

Image description: Drawings of elevations (front view) of buildings, including company quarters, laundresses’ quarters, granary, etc. 

Image description: Zoomed-in view of the commanding officer’s quarters, a two-story house with large windows and a porch awning with pillars. 

Image description: Zoomed-in view of the post hospital, a wide, low, well-ventilated building.

[scriobh-an-iontas]

And now that you've answered that, why not sit back and enjoy a brief history of the American Revolution:

First, the Seven Years War happens. It's mostly thought of as having been fought in Europe, but a campaign (not that kind) is also fought in North America. It is called "The French and Indian War" by the locals.

Britain wins the war against France, and subsequently gets the rights to all land east of the Mississippi river.

Colonialists start moving onto native land, probably with a lot of aggression and arrogance. This is ok so far as Britain is concerned, because they assume that the colonialists can play nice with the natives.

That is not the case. As such, the natives push back against them. 500+ colonialists die during this conflict.

Britain realizes that the colonialists CAN'T play nice and forbids them from going west of Appalachian mountains. Troops are sent to enforce this. Taxes are raised to support the troops, levied mostly on the colonies because they're the reason this mess exists at all.

Wealthy Land / Business Owners get frustrated by Britain imposing its will on the colonies and disallowing them from spreading West. Sure, taxes are bad, but it probably wasn't the little folks paying the lion's share of them, except insofar as the fees associated with them are concerned, but you pay sales taxes, so you know that heavy toll already.

Unhappy working class colonialists don't like paying those extra fees, like any USAmerican doesn't like, but this dislike is further stoked into unhappiness via propaganda until war is inevitable.

France, convinced by wealthy colonialists, backs to revolution as a "fuck you" to Britain ("We can't have land in the Americas? Fine. You don't get your precious colonies, either")

America is born! If you're a wealthy white man you're free to do whatever! Otherwise you can fuck off.

Imperialist conquest of the continent begins in earnest ("but really it's just our Manifest Destiny to control the whole continent so it's alright").

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Ultimately, if they don't benefit the wealthy, any establishment of rights in USAmerica regarding a disenfranchised group only happens after massive civil disruption.

Said rights are never seen as good by the establishment, only as the necessary price for keeping/restoring the peace.

For Example:

The north fought the civil war to keep the south in the union. The south fought the civil war to keep their slaves.

If Lincoln hadn't been killed and his VP hadn't bungled things as much as he did, there would be no amendment regarding slavery, it would be a purely legislative matter, not a constitutional one.

This means that, if Lincoln lived, we'd need to worry about republicans overturning anti-slavery laws too, in addition to everything else.

[sonofswift]

It all comes back to the 1890 Census

"In 1890, the Superintendent of the Census described the western part of the country as having so many pockets of settled area that a frontier line could no longer be said to exist. The advance of the frontier line that characterized shifts in population distribution for the previous 100 years was complete."

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Daydreaming of the cross-country road trip I'm gonna take across The Plains where the entire point is to pull over and explore every abandoned crumbling homestead I drive past

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[merrymorningofmay]

laser-focusing on western imperialism alone will give you a warped understanding of the world, but i suppose if you live in the west you can afford it, after all it's not like anyone's gonna invade you and make your life dependent on how well you navigate the histories and perspectives of other actors on the board. duh

[hootenanie]

seeing a post guilt tripping gay guys for being into cowboy imagery from a blog with a Star Trek icon and holding my tongue

[glassamphibians]

losing my shit over this

[muirneach]

cdn historian’s continued assertion that riel was insane (and therefore his actions were wrong) is… insane. because if u were 24 and actively seeing the horrors of colonialism unfold upon your homeland and you were doing everything to protect your people but there were threats being made on you literally every day from everyone from your neighbour to the fucking prime minister and ultimately you are unable to effectively stand in the way of the ceaseless march of imperialism you would probably be insane too. and anyways it’s not really any doubt that riel was mentally ill but that doesn’t mean his actions were lesser for it. i don’t care if he thought he was a prophet that god spoke through he was literally right about everything he did. sorry i am doing my weekly reading of my métis history book