It's the LAST MONDAY OF THE SCHOOL YEAR!!!
Alrighty...this week we are moving away from Reconstruction and seeing what is happening in another region of our country...the West. Today and tomorrow we will learn about different aspects of the West and on Wednesday, we will discuss how American begins to modernize. Let's take out our notebooks and write some notes about the West.
Link to video about Transcontinental Railroad: (Go to Resource 3: Transcontinental Railroad Artillery of Heaven)
illinois.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/the-transcontinental-railroad-gallery/ken-burns-the-west/
Link to video about the Homestead Act (Go to Resource 3: Good Company: A Tale of Western Loneliness):
illinois.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/white-farmers-in-the-american-west-1800s-gallery/ken-burns-the-west/
After watching the video and taking notes, answer this question.
Because of the movement West, what will happen to the Native Americans who were promised this land by the American government?
Once you are finished, write your 1/2 page (10 sentence) entry for your Primary Source Journal.
Alrighty...this week we are moving away from Reconstruction and seeing what is happening in another region of our country...the West. Today and tomorrow we will learn about different aspects of the West and on Wednesday, we will discuss how American begins to modernize. Let's take out our notebooks and write some notes about the West.
- The West
- Before the Civil War, many people were moving to the West
- Pioneers, farmers, & miners
- Miners found gold which led to gold strikes
- Gold Strikes led to boomtowns
- Boomtowns (we learned earlier in the year)
- Towns that grew up overnight
- As settlers moved to begin the hunt for gold, Native Americans were being pushed off their land
- The Railroad was also being built
- Transcontinental Railroad (went from the Atlantic to Pacific)
- Boomtowns (we learned earlier in the year)
- Gold Strikes led to boomtowns
- Cowboys also became popular
- Cowboys were (many times) ex Confederate soldiers
- Worked very, long, hard hours driving cattle from places like Texas, up North to a Railroad where the cows would go on a train to Chicago, before entering the slaughterhouse
- Homestead Act
- Passed in 1862
- Gave any settler 160 acres of land if they paid the filing fee and lived there for 5 years
- Single women and widows had the same rights as men, so they went off to settle land
- 1,000s of settlers moved to the land
- Immigrants worked hard on receiving their citizenship to go out and get a track of land
- Miners found gold which led to gold strikes
- Pioneers, farmers, & miners
- Before the Civil War, many people were moving to the West
Link to video about Transcontinental Railroad: (Go to Resource 3: Transcontinental Railroad Artillery of Heaven)
illinois.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/the-transcontinental-railroad-gallery/ken-burns-the-west/
Link to video about the Homestead Act (Go to Resource 3: Good Company: A Tale of Western Loneliness):
illinois.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/white-farmers-in-the-american-west-1800s-gallery/ken-burns-the-west/
After watching the video and taking notes, answer this question.
Because of the movement West, what will happen to the Native Americans who were promised this land by the American government?
Once you are finished, write your 1/2 page (10 sentence) entry for your Primary Source Journal.