1. Westward Expansion

2. Objectives – 9/6
IWBAT identify key aspects of the American West by analyzing photographs, pictures, and maps.
Drill
What comes to mind when you think of “THE AMERICAN WEST”?

3. Topic: Westward Expansion Preview
Identify major concepts and persons that encompass the entire unit on Westward Expansion.
(H) SWBAT analyze the economic and environmental factors that influenced the settlement of the American West.

4. Drill (Only write what’s underlined)
Pretend you live in St. Louis, Missouri in the year Recently, you hear word that the government is offering 160 acres to anyone that uproots their family and settles in the Nebraska Territory. Only catch is they provide you nothing but the land. You decide that you can raise $120 if you sell your property and small business.
PROMPT: Would you leave all that you know behind in search of land? Why or Why not?

5. GT Topic: Environmental and Economic Factors of Westward Expansion
SWBAT analyze the economic and environmental factors that influenced the settlement of the American West.
Drill: What factors encouraged Americans to move west?
List responses in a T-chart in your notebooks as
Push Factors Pull Factors

6. The Great American West

7. What is Manifest Destiny?

8. Moving West

9. Map of Routes West

10. Buffalo

11. Buffalo Roam the Plains

12. Homestead Act

13. Homestead Act

14. Homesteaders

15. Longhorn Cattle

16. Ranching

17. Mining

18. Mining

19. Conflict on the Plains

21. Key people in The Battle of Little Bighorn
Sitting Bull
General Custer
Crazy Horse

22. Can you predict what happened at the Battle of Little Big Horn?

23. The Battle from the Sioux’s Point of View

24. U.S. Military’s Point of View

25. Geronimo Campaigns

26. The Ghost Dance

27. Wounded Knee From these photos, What do you predict Happened at the
Battle of Wounded
Knee?

28. Wounded Knee

29. The West Map
What evidence can you find on the maps of the kinds of economic opportunities available in the West?
What types of industries flourished in the West?
What role did the government play in the development of the West?
How do the maps demonstrate the attitude of the American government and American people toward American Indians?
In what ways did the railroads contribute to development of the West?

30. The West Map Continued In what ways did technology transform the West?
What role did the West play in creating an interdependent and self sufficient nation?
What evidence can you find in the maps or charts to explain why the area from the Mississippi River to the Rockies was America’s last frontier?
Were the U.S. government and the Western settlers justified in exploiting Native Americans for economic gain and expansion?

31. Wrap Up – Answer 1 in your notebook!
In your opinion, what will be the greatest achievement of Westward Expansion? The greatest loss?
What hardships do you think the settlers will face during their journey west and once they arrive at their destination?

32. GT Summary
Based on the maps you reviewed in class today, what are some environmental and/or economic factors that encouraged Americans to move west?