Unit Nine. Westward Expansion. Chapter 17 NB- We are going a bit out of order- We’ll study Reconstruction after the break
A mini (me)
Handout:
unit
Excerpt from Keegan, Fields of Battle, The Indians of the Plains
Wednesday, December 17, 2008 Topics:
Chapter 17 Mining and Farming and logging (oh my)
Thursday, December 18, 2008 Topics:
The Conquest of the West
Reading:
Keegan, discussion of Keegan
Friday, December 19, 2008 Activity- Outline (In groups of 2) EACH of the following: Trace and examine the relations in the years 1865-1890 of white Americans with the Indians. Explain the importance of EACH of the following in the development of the western territories of the USA after the end of the Civil War: (a) railroad construction, (b) homestead farming; (c) open rage cattle ranching
Monday, December 22, 2008 Test- MC and Vocabulary
Tuesday, December 23 A Festivus For The Rest of Us!
Chapter 17
Great Plains Plains Indians Reservation system Sand Creek Massacre Little Big Horn Sitting Bull Crazy Horse Phil Sheridan
George Armstrong Custer “soddie” Barbed Wire Comstock Lode Homestead Act James J. Hill Promontory point Turner Thesiis