12/14 AIM: Moving West Do Now: take out paper for notes Questions On Anything? Did you take the last test? 12/14 link :Oklahoma ok

New Unit: Westward Expansion – Industrial Age

The West The land west of the Mississippi river.

Native Americans Settlers View I. Views of the West Native Americans Settlers View Native Americans believed you did not own land. Borrow it from future generations. Protect and not use up the land. Settlers believed you own and sell land. You use up land and move to another place.

II. Homestead Act 1862 A. Act B. Reaction Act – 160 acres land- 5 years living Reaction – it worked.

III. Native Americans. A. Destruction of the. Buffalo. B III. Native Americans A. Destruction of the Buffalo B. Dawes Act 1887 C. Assimilation Destruction of the Buffalo: buffalo we used by the native americans in all aspects of their life. As settlers moved into the area they killed the buffalo and this helped destroy the native population Act – assimilate the native american population. Free land if they left culture, tribe and way of life Reaction to the Dawes act. Failed

IV. Transcontinental Railroad A. Irish/Chinese B. Success C. Failures Irish and Chinese laborers helped build the railroad. Very deadly job Success – connect nation, towns grow around stops, standardized times Failures – destroyed farm/grazing land, very expensive

What’s inside your head? Create a head from the perspective from of a native American, settler, immigrant, etc. You must have 5 thoughts inside the head from the perspective of your person (positive and negative – school appropriate) Use pictures and words - 5 of each