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On July 10, 2019
Bell Ringer: Racial Dynamics in the West Following the Civil War
Empires, Nations, and Families
Anne Hyde chronicles the lives of people living in the West following the Louisiana Purchase and talks about the role they played in the history of the region. She also looks at how the economic shift from the fur trade to agriculture after the Civil War impacted people with a multi-ethnic background.
Description
Anne Hyde chronicles the lives of people living in the West and talks about the role they played in the history of the region. She also looks at how the economic shift from the fur trade to agriculture after the Civil War impacted multi-ethnic people.
Bell Ringer Assignment
- Why were Native American men and women important to the fur trade? How did this compare with the roles multi-ethnic people fulfilled? Why?
- When agriculture replaced the fur trade after the Civil War, how and why were native people and multi-ethnic people impacted?
- How did the loss of access to land ownership impact people of mixed race in 1880?
- What conditions impact attitudes about race? Explain your answer with an example.
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Participants
Vocabulary
- Citizenship
- Civil War
- Colonial
- Economics
- Fur Trade
- Half Breed Tract Reserve
- Mixed Race
- Multi-ethnic
- Native Americans