Note taking guide for the "Property Values" lecture, which is based upon Patricia Limerick's The Legacy of Conquest, pp. 55-77.

Realistic Western films would be about ____________ ___________, not about shootouts. Weapons would be deeds and _______________, not six-guns.

Western American history was an effort to draw ________________ dividing the West into manageable units of property.

The appropriate way to treat land according to white Americans was to divide it, distribute it, and to ________________ it.

Founders of the American Republic feared that Europe's fate would be America's fate if _____________ moved out of balance with the land supply.

Planners of the American Republic believed society followed an inevitable sequence of development: from hunting and gathering, to herding, to agriculture, and finally to ____________________.

If America arrived at the final stage, the nation would face the same problems that plagued Europe---a small elite class addicted to luxury, and a large population of _______________, dependent people whose very existence could ruin prospects for a healthy republic.

Thomas Jefferson said, "Those who ___________ in the _____________ are the chosen people of God.

"Power always follows _______________," said John Adams.

In 1832, the national Land Office was dealing with _________________ land patents a year, and each one needed to be signed by President Andrew Jackson.

Problems of land distribution included removal of _________________ territorial claims.

Land Office employees often were involved in ________________ and ______________ of land for personal profit.

From 1789 to 1834, Congress passed a total of ________________ land laws.

Into the last half of the nineteenth century, variations in the ___________ __________ kept legal matters complex.

Unfortunately, Jeffersonian ideals were not being met in unequal competition for land. "The advantage always accrued to the _______________ man of influence, regardless of what the law said."

The Homestead Act rewarded committed labor with ____________ acres of land, but it failed to end the auction system or cash sales.

William Stewart, like many others, learned that greater rewards could be made by mining the _________

rather than by mining for gold as he profitted from claim and property disputes.

Under the "first in time, first in right" principle, first arrivals were able to claim the local _________supply and to hold the adjoining land.

Land _____________________, acquiring land for its resale value, allowed selfish individuals to take advantage of the innocent and hard working homesteaders.

The range of resources that the concept of "property" would be asked to embrace included: animal pelts and hides, valuable minerals, cattle and ______________ territory, timber, _______________ routes, oil, and water.

The development of most resources depended on control of ____________________.