The West and the Civil War

1845-1848:The Great Gulping

1845-1848:The Great Gulping

“A Dose of Arsenic”

Bleeding Kansas

David Terry & David Broderick

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:TRANS-MISSISSIPPI_CIVIL_WAR.svg

Henry H. Sibley

Edward Canby

John P. Slough

John Chivington

Glorieta Pass,The Gettysburg of the West

Gettysburg,The Glorieta Pass of the East

John Baylor

James Carleton

John W. “Jack” Swilling

Little Crow

New Ulm, Minnesota, 1862

December 26, 1862

Colorado, 1864

Sand Creek, Colorado:November, 1864

John Chivington

Christopher “Kit” Carson

The Long Walk, 1864

Bosque Redondo

James Carleton

World Copper Deposits

U. S. Coal Deposits

http://wallpapers.dpics.org/r?12

Can the nation hold together?

What’s the relationship between the central government and the states?

And the regions?

How do cultural minorities fit into the nation?

Who is an American?A citizen?

Questions the Greater Reconstruction Asked and Tried to Answer

• Can the nation hold together?• What’s the relationship between the central

government and the states and regions?• Who are the Americans?