1. Period 6 (1865 – 1898) [Days 1 – 2]
*Please find a new seat to sit in. If you are in the back of the room, come to front (and vice versa). If you are on the left side of the room, go to the right side (and vice versa).

2. Warm-Up What do you know about the (Wild) West?
Where does your knowledge come from?
Which conceptions do you think are accurate? Inaccurate?

3. In 1860 did the United States encompass land from the Atlantic to the Pacific coasts?
What is the difference between a state and a territory?
Why do students think so few Easterners settled in between the states fronting the Mississippi River and the states of California and Oregon?

4. The West: The Grandest Enterprise Under God (Episode Five)
BIG QUESTION—How/why could the government play a role in enticing people to settle the Great Plains?

5. What is the purpose of this act?
Document Analysis: In what ways are these acts mutually beneficial both to settlers and the railways?
Homestead Act (1862)
Pacific Railway Act (1862)
What is the purpose of this act?
Who is entitled to secure a grant of land from the Federal Government?
What is the purpose of this act?
Why do you think the government is providing for the building of telegraph poles along the length of the railroad?

6. The West: The Grandest Enterprise Under God (Episode Five)
Thus far we’ve looked at the building of the Transcontinental Railway only through the eyes of the U.S. government and the people it wanted the railroad to serve…
BIG QUESTION—What other groups of people were affected by this enormous undertaking and why?

7. Short-Answer Quiz
Briefly answer the questions in paragraph form (no bullet points).
A thesis is not required.

8. Warm-Up: Westward Expansion
If someone says it better, let them say it… CRASH COURSE #24
While watching, complete the fill-in notes!

9. Practice: Stimulus Based Multiple Choice Question
“The President of the United States…hereby is authorized, whenever in his opinion any reservation or any part thereof…is advantageous for agricultural and grazing purposes…to allot the lands in said reservation in severalty to any Indian located thereon in quantities as follows:
-To each head of family, one-quarter of a section;
-To each single person over eighteen years of age, one eighth of a section;
-To each single orphan child under eighteen years of age, one eighth of a section…
Every Indian born within the territorial limits of the United States to whom allotments shall have been made…who has voluntarily taken up, within said limits his residence separate and apart from any tribe of Indians therein, and has adopted that habits of civilized life, is hereby declared a citizen of the United States.”
The Dawes Severalty Act, 1887
United States, Statutes at Large, 24:388 ff.

10. Practice: Stimulus Based Multiple Choice Question
1. The primary goal of the government policy cited above was to a. respond to military resistance by Indians. b. promote a larger reservation system. c. launch new treaties with Indians. d. end tribal identities.

11. Practice: Stimulus Based Multiple Choice Question
2. During the late 19th century, western Native American life was most affected by
a. post-Civil War migrations of whites.
b. evangelical missions.
c. generous treaties.
d. alliances among Indian nations.

12. Practice: Stimulus Based Multiple Choice Question
3. Historically, struggles between American Indian tribes and the federal government have stemmed from
a. the Constitution’s failure to precisely define the relationship between American Indian tribes and the national government.
b. the inability of nativists to bring the necessary reforms to both the federal government and tribal leaders.
c. Supreme Court decisions which blocked meaningful legislation for American Indians.
d. federal actions stripping away rights granted to American Indians by the 14th Amendment.

13. Turner’s American Frontier
Read “The Significance of the Frontier in American history” by Frederick Jackson Turner
Answer the given questions
Practice restating the questions in your answer

14. Short Answer Quiz
Briefly answer the questions in paragraph form on a separate piece of loose-leaf paper. A thesis is not required.