Today's Agenda

Learning Target:
I can describe the changes that took place as Americans moved west from 1860-1920.

Critical Vocabulary: Pacific Railway Act, Union Pacific, Central Pacific, Promontory Point, Homestead Act, Exodusters, Comstock Lode, Long Drives, “Range Wars,” Concentration Policy, Indian Appropriations Act, Buffalo Soldiers, Sand Creek Massacre, Red River War, George Armstrong Custer, Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, Battle of Little Bighorn,Geronimo, Ghost Dance, Wounded Knee Massacre, Helen Hunt Jackson, A Century of Dishonor, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Dawes Severalty Act of 1887, Frederick Jackson Turner, “The Significance of the Frontier in American History”

Today's Agenda:

1. Background Question: How did the Hollywood version of the American cowboy differ from the reality?
2. Guided Instruction: The Story of Us - Heartland
3. Independent Learning: Sketch Notes Activity
4. ​Reflection Question: ​How did the West change in the period from 1862-1917?

Homework: The Great West

Tentative Test Date: January 26