History 263: Readings in Frontier and Western History

		History 162--Lecture 7 and 8 THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND THE MAKING OF AMERICAN WESTS The Federal West: Rhetoric vs. Reality The Federal Government and the Trans-Appalachian West Colonizing the "Western Country" The Homestead Ethic Male Independence vs. Female Interdependence Pioneers vs. Profiteers Pioneers as Profiteers The Irrelevance of the Federal Government in the Early Republic The Problem of Colonization and National Consolidation Raising Revenue, Restraining Expansion Liberalizing Distribution: Federal Land Policy to the Homestead Act The Federal Government and the Acquisition and Exploration of the Trans-Mississippi West The Louisiana Purchase The "Programming" of Lewis and Clark "The Great American Desert" Northern Mexico in the 1820s Mexican Efforts to Consolidate the Northern Frontier Problems of Political Consolidation Problems of Economic Consolidation Countering American Expansion Peopling the Frontier Separatist Movements and Frontier Rebellions Manifest Destiny Visuals Exploration and Migration Routes, 1804-60