1. KC 1/27 I hope you enjoyed your snow days!
Take out your “Unit 1 Overview” worksheets and finish them
Don’t forget to turn in your signed syllabus sheets

2. Westward Expansion

3. Focusing Points… Why did many people travel west after the Civil War?
Who traveled west?
How did they go west?

4. Reasons to move
Land
Money- gold and silver

5. Homestead Act
Homestead Act- Gave 160 acres of land in the west to anyone who wanted it
Encouraged much migration

6. Oklahoma Land Rush
Many people flocked into the unassigned lands that would become Oklahoma
People who entered the land before it opened were known as “Sooners”

7. Open Range System System where cattle was herded without fences
Cattle were controlled by cowboys
One of the animals that was popularly herded was the Texas Longhorn

8. Cowboy’s Lasso Tricks

9. California Gold Rush As gold was discovered in California
Americans migrated to California in hopes of striking it rich
Gold rush was in 1849, many of those who rushed to California to find gold were known as 49ers

10. Mining Towns
Many small towns pooped up in the west as a result of this mining boom
“Rough and tumble” environment
Vigilantes who took law into their hands to keep the peace

11. Wyatt Earp and the Ok Corral

12. How did they get there?
Transcontinental Railroad
Telegraph

13. Transcontinental Railroad
Railroad that connected the east and the west
Led to the formation of time zones

15. Union meets Pacific

16. Union meets Pacific

18. Who went?
Many whites settlers displaced Native Americans for land to mine and build railroads
“Exodusters”- African-Americans who traveled west in search of better life

19. Put away your notes and take out a sheet of paper… its time for a SHOW ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What were two reasons for people to move west?
What did the Homestead Act do?
In what state did a gold rush occur in 1849?
What connected the east and west making transportation easier?
What were African-Americans who moved west for a better life known as?