1. 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

2. New Unit: Westward Expansion – Industrial Age

3. The West
The land west of the Mississippi river.

4. 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.

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

6. III. Native Americans. A. Destruction of the. Buffalo. B
III. Native Americans A. Destruction of the Buffalo B. Dawes Act 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

7. 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

8. 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