Wounded Knee
Chapter 16: The American West The student is expected to know (desired outcomes): What was the American West? What drove people to move west and how did they get there? What major events shaped the West? Who were the major people/groups who had an impact? Who were most affected by the settling of the West? How did the idea of the West shape America? Evaluate, support, defend Is US history a history of progress? Has the gap between rich and poor improved?
Today’s Agenda Review handouts SQR3: Chapter 16, Transformation of the West –Survey/scan section headings, maps, chronology –Question Main point Evidence Application How is it related to what you know –Read –Recite –Review Read (576) Chief Joseph’s speech (pair-share) List “Big Topics”; then JIGSAW NOTE: READING QUIZ (assessment) Jan 6/7, BIG TOPICS/IDEAS focus on concepts, principles, or process=enduring (Magna Carta) 2. Important to know and do 3. Worth being familiar with
Chief Joseph Read passage on p. 576 As you read, take notes Why do YOU think the authors included this passage to introduce the chapter? pair-share WHAT IS THE WEST? –What do we know? –What do we expect to know
The West: After reading the passage and scanning the chapter, what are the Big Topics ?
► Images of the West ► Changed the focus from the industrial East to the frontier ► Physical description/abundant land The Great Plains aka Great American Desert mountains The Spanish southwest Natural resources Woodlands and forests ► The Indian Question from co-existence to near extermination to reservations development of federal Indian policy and the Indians wars ► Issue of land ownership Big Topics ► Getting There-trails and rails transcontinental railroad ► Getting rich mining, gold, and boomtowns cattle ranching farming (Homestead Act trade ► Conflict between various factions ► Experiences of the various groups as they moved into the west Who came and from where? Why? ► Explain Turner’s thesis
“ The Significance of the Frontier in American History” Example of historiography 1890 census noted: There can hardly be said to be a frontier line” Turner postulated the frontier and free land –explained American development, –shaped customs and character, –gave rise to independence, self- confidence, and individualism, and –Fostered innovation and adaption BUT what’s the counterview? (diversity, women, environmental consequences, and economics) SO what is the west?
Physiographic Map of the U.S.
Native Americans in the West: Major Battles and Reservations
Mining Regions of the West Consider Innovation and business profit Environment and conservation Boomtowns-problems
Cattle Trails Why cattle drives? Who were cowboys? Why does the lore of the cowboy prevail?
Agricultural Land Use in the 1880s
What do editorial cartoons tell us?