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: Add the following Native American groups to your map: Iroquois, Shawnee, Cherokee, Seminole, Sioux, Nez Perce, Cheyenne, Navajo, Pueblo, Apache.
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. Reflection Question: How did the Concentration Policy and Indian Appropriations Act impact Native Americans?

Homework: The Great West Reading