1. The Wild West:

2. “How the West was Won”

3. Westward Expansion:

4. Great Plains:
A large area of grassland between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains.

5. Railroads: Brainpop

6. Transcontinental Railroad:
railroad line constructed to connect the Pacific Coast at San Francisco Bay with the existing eastern U.S. rail network at Council Bluffs, Iowa.

8. Range War:
Battles fought between farmers and ranchers, and miners and cowboys over land and water rights in the West from the 1870s until after 1900.

9. Western Gunfight!

10. Sod Houses:
A home built of sod blocks by homesteaders on the Great Plains; sod is a layer of grass and dirt held together by dense roots.

11. Hardships Encountered By Settlers:
1. Finding building materials
2. natural geography
3. climate conditions
4. isolated communities
5. lack of revenue

12. American Indians: Brainpop

13. Plains Indian Wars:
War between the U.S. and the Native Americans that lasted until 1900 when the last of the Indians surrendered.

14. Treaty:
A formal agreement between nations.

15. Reservations:
Land set aside for Native Americans to live on when they were forced from their homeland.

16. Custer’s Last Stand (Little Big Horn)

17. Work:
Write a paper describing the role of the Buffalo Soldiers in the west and Tennessee native George Jordan.

18. The End