COMPARATIVE HISTORYBy: Twyla Gollery

Conquering & Settling the West

Both the US and Canada moved Indians out of there Native lands so they could obtain the land for other uses

In both countries railroads brought farmers, miners, and merchants each overused things that Indians depended on to survive such as the buffalo

People also demanded that the Indians should stop practicing their culture

Conquering & Settling the West

The US had much dispute with the Native Americans and even campaigned against tribes and bands considered hostile

Canada on the other hand was able to handle disputes peacefully

Canada also gave rights to people of mixed races

The United States in contrast ignored mixed race people unless they chose to live with the tribe

Conquering & Settling the West

Both countries used education, such as boarding school to try to eliminate Native American culture out of the children

Both also wanted the Indians to accept churches, education, and farming into there customs

Neither country was willing to give the Native Americans as much land as they needed

Conquering & Settling the West

Karaganda and Billings Montana are compared to be the same place

Both are in the same topographical zone

Before technology both areas were supported mainly by agriculture

Each native people from each land were nomads because they had to travel for food

Conquering & Settling the West

The west is a place were people went for freedom, the last frontier

Northern Kazakhstan represents a place were people are in exile, and imprisonment

Although they may resemble each other in some ways when one thinks of each place, they have very different representations of what they stand for

Cultural Change in the 1920s

After World War I, Americans were after the feeling of normalcy

People loved new technology and movies were very popular

Movies directly influenced the culture change in the 1920's because so many people were influenced by the movies

Cultural Change in the 1920s

Movies became a major factor in reintroducing traditional values that may have been lost

Movie makers would provide stereotypes which people could relate to but with the attitudes changing so fast a movie maker was uncertain of how long a stereo type character would last

Cultural Change in the 1920s

Americans brought Jazz music to their troops while at war for entertainment

When the French herd this new music they weren't quite sure what to think of it

Jazz originated in American, but it soon gained widespread popularity in France, Britain, Germany, Italy and else where.

Cultural Change in the 1920s

During war the French warmly accepted African American soldiers who were willing to fight

Some African American's later traveled to Paris to preform Jazz which thrived and expanded

Many African Americans considered France a color blind country because of how good they were treated

Cultural Change in the 1920s

With Jazz musicians spreading out to preform in different countries, some countries believed they were losing their traditional culture

Jazz music could also be listened to from the radio and phonograph which helped Jazz culture to become even more popular in more places