Today's Agenda

Learning Target:
I can describe the opportunities and conflicts that took place as Americans moved westward.

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: What name was given to the African American soldiers who fought in the Indian Wars?
2. Citizenship Question: How many U.S. Senators are there? 
   A. 25 
   B. 50 
   C. 100 
   D. 435
3. Guided Instruction: Native Americans Under Siege
4. Reflection Question: How did the Dawes Act change U.S. policy? What were its long-term effects on the Native American population?

Homework: The Great West Reading