Today's Agenda

AP Learning Objective: 
Explain the causes and effects of the settlement of the West from 1877 to 1898. ​

Learning Target:
I can describe the changes that took place as Americans moved west from 1860-1915.

Critical Vocabulary: Homestead Act, Exodusters, Great Sioux War, Ghost Dance, Dawes Act, New Immigrants, Chinese Exclusion Act, Political Machines, Patronage, Pendleton Act, Populist Party, Omaha Platform, Laissez Faire Economics,Social Darwinism, Vertical Integration, Horizontal Integration, Monopoly, A Gospel of Wealth, American Federation of Labor, Industrial Workers of the World, Homestead Strike, Pullman Strike, Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, Muckrakers, Social Gospel Movement, Settlement House Movement, Atlanta Compromise, Niagara Movement, Square Deal, Trust-Buster, The Jungle, Meat Inspection Act, Pure Food and Drug Act, Progressive Party, New Nationalism, New Freedom, Sixteenth Amendment, Federal Reserve Act, Clayton Anti-Trust Act, Seventeenth Amendment, Eighteenth Amendment, Nineteenth Amendment
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Today's Agenda:

1. Background Question: What 1862 law granted settlers 160 acres of public land in exchange for a filing fee and 5 years of continuous residence on that land?
2. Citizenship Question: What is freedom of religion? 
   A. Religious leaders are exempt from the law. 
   B. States may choose a religion for the people. 
   C. Religious institutions do not have to pay taxes. 
   D. People may or may not choose to practice a religion.
3. Guided Instruction: The Story of Us - Heartland
4. ​Reflection Question: What challenges did settlers face as they moved West during the period from 1860-1920?

Homework: The Great West Reading