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

Today's Agenda:

1. Background Question: How did the Battle of Little Big Horn impact American Indian policies in the years that followed?
2. Citizenship Question: What are the two parts of the U.S. Congress? 
   A. the President and the Cabinet 
   B. the Supreme Court and the Superior Court 
   C. the U.S. Treasury and the State Department 
   D. the Senate and the House of Representatives
3. Guided Instruction: Native Americans Under Siege
4. Individual Learning: Carlisle Indian School Activity
5. Reflection Question: How did western expansion impact the lives of the Native Americans living on the Great Plains?

Homework: The Great West Reading