Instructor ESources PowerPoint Presentation Chapter 7 A Frontier Society in Transition

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Chapter 7A Frontier Society in Transition

• The History of Texas
• Harlan Davidson, Inc.

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Learning Outcomes (7)

• comprehend the significance of the transition
  that Texas experienced in the post-Civil War
  years,
• appreciate the multiethnic and multicultural
  changes in that transition from frontier to
  modernity,
• be knowledgeable about the diversity of the Texas
  population that settled between 1870 and 1900
  while the Indians were displaced,
• understand the factors contributing to the
  violence and lawlessness gripping Texas through
  the 1890s.

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Chapter 7 A Frontier Society in Transition

• Aftermath of Reconstruction
• Signs of new modernity
• Demographic change
• Unsettled regions in West Texas
• A horse gun culture
• A frontier ethos
• The older heritage
• A nationalist solidarity legacy

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Postwar Texas Society

• The Texas population, 1879-1900
• Recruiting immigrants
• Indian pacification
• Cattle railroads
• The growth of South Texas
• Large ranching enterprises
• Kenedy Ranch
• King Ranch
• Patron Mexican ranch hands

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Postwar Texas Society

• The Indian Displacement
• Military operations
• Extermination relocation
• The Cattle Kingdom
• The long drive cattle trails
• Railroad ranches
• Legacy of the cattle kings
• Sheep Goats

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Postwar Texas Society

• Violence Lawlessness
• Vigilantism
• Gunfighters
• Targeting racial ethnic groups
• The Texas Rangers
• The Special Force the Frontier Battalion
• Extremism legend
• extralegal methods
• cattle rustling, vigilantism, feuds

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Postwar Texas Society

• Urban rural Texas
• Cities San Antonio, Houston, Dallas,
  Galveston, Ft. Worth
• Commerce
• railroads transform towns
• modern conveniences telephone telegraph
• Self-sustaining black communities lacking
• segregation not evident
• Hispanic neighborhoods / barrios
• characterized by poverty
• small business districts

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Postwar Texas Society

• Minority Ethnic Groups in the Postwar Era
• Plain Living
• settler communities
• role of churches
• Status of women little changed
• minimal employment
• organizational activity womens club life
• Black Texans
• benevolent associations mutual aid societies
• the church most vital institution
• Juneteenth celebrations
• Buffalo soldiers

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Postwar Texas Society

• Minority Ethnic Groups in the Postwar Era
• Mexican Americans
• Tejanos fashion a bicultural world
• Spanish language, spoken read
• few Tejano ranches, businesses, politicians
• European other ethnic groups
• the German Belt
• Slavic, Polish, Czech, Dutch, Chinese
  immigrants
• Pluralistic society
• Shared traditions cultural synthesis

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Postwar Texas Society

• The Legacy of the Frontier
• Native peoples displaced
• Struggle for territorial supremacy
• Anglo Texan hegemony by 1880
• The tenets of Texanism
• self-confidence individualism
• distinctive styles of dress, art, literature,
  music
• emergence of frontier myth
• violence, greed, wastefulness

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Key Words Terms (7)

• King Ranch/kinenos
• John Wesley Hardin
• Black Chinese
• King Fisher
• Quanah Parker
• Forts Concho, McKavett, Belknap, Griffin
• Catarino Garza
• Cynthia Ann Parker

• Comanche Range
• Salt Creek Massacre
• Battle of Adobe Walls
• Battle of Palo Duro Canyon
• Col. Ranald S.MacKenzie
• Charles Goodnight /Loving Trail
• Walter Prescott Webb