1. Announcements/Reminders
If you have your Student Info Sheet please turn it in on the green chair.
If you have your Letter to Me then please put it on the blue chair.
Make sure to get a binder for class ASAP!!

2. Westward Movement

3. What did the Homestead Act offer?
40 acres and a mule
Gold and silver
160 acres of land
An acre of land

4. Which two ethnic groups largely helped build the railways of the west?
British and Germans
Japanese and Irish
Chinese and Irish
Mexicans and Native Americans

5. How did Native Americans view land ownership?

6.   What was discovered in California that pushed thousands of people to move to the west?

7. What was the term used to describe the idea that Americans believed they had a “divine right” to expand from the east coast to the west coast?
The Divine Right
God’s Destiny
American Imperialism
Manifest Destiny

8. What pushed people AWAY FROM THE SOUTH AND EAST OF THE us?
Post-Reconstruction South
Farmland in the East was expensive
The hot weather
Ethnic and Religious Persecution

9. What Pull Factors contributed to Westward Expansion?
Availability of property.
Enforcement of water rights
Established concepts of private property rights.
Concept of Free market
Constant Influx of immigrants attracted to new jobs and cheap land.
Escape of the post Reconstruction South.

10. Homestead Act 1862 at least 21 or head of household.
Settlers would receive 160 acres of land
at least 21 or head of household.
American citizen or immigrant filing for citizenship.
built a house and lived on their claim 6 months out of a year.
There were more than 80 million acres claimed.

11. Morrill Land Grant Act 1862
Gave state governments western land to sell to create income for “ land grant” colleges.
These colleges would specialize in agriculture and mechanical arts.
The state sold their land to LAND SPECULATORS.

12. Pacific Railway Act 1862 and 1864
1. Government gave large land grants to the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads. 2. Railroad expansion provided ways of moving to the west. 3. Railroads sold large portions of land to settlers .

13. Immigrants
Many Chinese and Irish immigrants helped build new rail lines
Irish and Northern Europeans were escaping war, famine and persecution

14. African Americans https://youtu.be/OF-3t8Id6mA Exodusters
African Americans who moved to Kansas to escape the post reconstruction south
Buffalo Soldiers
Black troops who served in the U.S. military in the west

15. Miners Miners moved west to search for precious metals
Gold discovered at Sutter’s Mill, California
Silver at the Comstock Lode, Nevada
Between mining out west yielded about $400 million in silver and gold

16. The Shrinking Frontier
Developments
Settlements about every 10 miles
Town to city at rapid pace
Problems
Lands already occupied by Native Americans
Ask students if they think this will cause problems

17. Westward Expansion review map
WRITE THE NUMBER ONE IN THE BOTTOM RIGHT CORNER. Tomorrow you will get a table of contents to start for your binder and this will be the first assignment in there.
You will use your textbook to help you label and color the map.
For #3, color the region of the 13 colonies
DO NOT DO #10