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: List three places you would like to visit one day.
2. Citizenship Question: What is one right or freedom from the First Amendment? 
   A. to vote 
   B. jury trial 
   C. free speech 
   D. to bear arms
3. Individual Learning: America Moves West Sketch Notes
4. ​Reflection Question: List the first 20 US presidents.

Homework: The Great West Reading