• Read the songs “Uncle
Sam’s Farm” and
“Dakota Land.”
• Then use the Venn diagram
to compare and contrast
the similarities &
differences in each primary
source.
Uncle Sam's Farm
•
Of all the mighty nations in the East or in the West,
O this glorious Yankee nation is the greatest and the best.
We have room for all creation and our banner is unfurled,
Here's a general invitation to the people of the world.
Chorus: Then come along, come along, make no delay;
Come from every nation, come from every way.
Our lands, they are broad enough - don't be alarmed,
For Uncle Sam is rich enough to give us all a farm.
•
Chorus: Then come along, come along, make no delay;
Come from every nation, come from every way.
Our lands, they are broad enough - don't be alarmed,
For Uncle Sam is rich enough to give us all a farm.
The brave in every nation are joining heart and hand
And flocking to America, the real promised land;
And Uncle Sam stands ready with a child upon each arm
To give them all a welcome to a lot upon his farm.
•
St. Lawrence marks our Northern line as fast her waters flow;
And the Rio Grande our Southern bound, way down to Mexico.
From the great Atlantic Ocean where the sun begins to dawn,
Leap across the Rocky Mountains far away to Oregon.
Chorus: Then come along, come along, make no delay;
Come from every nation, come from every way.
Our lands, they are broad enough - don't be alarmed,
For Uncle Sam is rich enough to give us all a farm.
•
Chorus: Then come along, come along, make no delay;
Come from every nation, come from every way.
Our lands, they are broad enough - don't be alarmed,
For Uncle Sam is rich enough to give us all a farm.
•
While the South shall raise the cotton, and the West, the corn and pork,
New England manufactories shall do up the finer work;
For the deep and flowing waterfalls that course along our hills
Are just the thing for washing sheep and driving cotton mills.
•
Chorus: Then come along, come along, make no delay;
Come from every nation, come from every way.
Our lands, they are broad enough - don't be alarmed,
For Uncle Sam is rich enough to give us all a farm.
Yes! we're bound to lead the nations for our motto's "Go
ahead,"
And we'll tell the foreign paupers that our people are well fed;
For the nations must remember that Uncle Sam is not a fool,
For the people do the voting and the children go to school.
•
Our fathers gave us liberty, but little did they dream
The grand results that pour along this mighty age of steam;
For our mountains, lakes and rivers are all a blaze of fire,
And we send our news by lightning on the telegraphic wires.
Chorus: Then come along, come along, make no delay;
Come from every nation, come from every way.
Our lands, they are broad enough - don't be alarmed,
For Uncle Sam is rich enough to give us all a farm.[
A welcome, warm and hearty, do we give the sons of toil
To come to the West and settle and labor on free soil;
We've room enough and land enough, they needn't feel alarm O! come to the land of freedom and vote yourself a farm.
Chorus: Then come along, come along, make no delay;
Come from every nation, come from every way.
Our lands, they are broad enough - don't be alarmed,
For Uncle Sam is rich enough to give us all a farm.
O Dakota Land
O Dakota Land, sweet Dakota
land,
As on thy fiery soil I stand,
I look across the plains,
And wonder why it never
rains,
Till Gabriel blows his
trumpet sound
And says the rain's just gone
around.
We've reached the land of
desert sweet,
Where nothing grows for
man to eat.
The wind it blows with
feverish heat
Across the plains so hard to
beat.
We've reached the land of hills and
stones
Where all is strewn with buffalo
bones.
O buffalo bones, bleached buffalo
bones,
I seem to hear your sighs and moans.
We have no wheat, we have no oats,
We have no corn to feed our shoats;
Our chickens are so very poor
They beg for crumbs outside the
door.
Our horses are of bronco race;
Starvation stares them in the face.
We do not live, we only stay;
We are too poor to get away.
Think about it…
1. After you write as many words as you can
that describe the physical environment of
“Uncle Sam’s Farm” and “Dakota Land” in
the Venn diagram.
2. How were humans able to adapt to the
harsh environment described in “Dakota
Land?”
– Outside of the Venn diagram, make a list of all
the tools, technologies, and adaptations that
made it possible to live on the Great Plains .
Comparing & Contrasting Similarities & Differences
“Uncle Sam’s Farm”
“Dakota Land”
A family poses with the wagon in which they live and travel daily during their pursuit
of a homestead, 1886.
Homestead Act:
Using astronomical starting points, territory was divided
into a 6-mile square called a township prior to settlement.
The township was divided into 36 sections, each measuring 1
square mile or 640 acres each.
Known as the
“First Homesteader”
On January 1, 1863, Daniel Freeman,
a Union Army scout, was scheduled to
leave Gage County, Nebraska
Territory, to report for duty in St.
Louis.
At a party, Freeman met some local
Land Office officials and convinced a
clerk to open the office shortly after
midnight in order to file a land claim.
In doing so, Freeman became one of
the first to take advantage of the
opportunities provided by the
Homestead Act, a law signed by
President Abraham Lincoln on May 20,
1862. At the time of the signing, 11
states had left the Union, and this
piece of legislation would continue to
have regional and political overtones.
Daniel Freeman's Homestead Application
Daniel Freeman's Proof of Improvements
Daniel Freeman's Certificate of Eligibility
The Old West of America involved the expansion of seventeen future states, which entered
the Union as listed chronologically by earliest entry date
1.Texas (12/29/1845)
2.California (9/9/1850)
3.Oregon (2/14/1859)
4.Kansas (1/29/1861)
5.Nevada (10/31/1864)
6.Nebraska (3/1/1867)
7.Colorado (8/1/1876)
8.North Dakota (11/2/1889)
1.South Dakota (11/2/1889)
10.Montana (11/8/1889)
11.Washington (11/11/1889)
12.Idaho (7/3/1890)
13.Wyoming (7/10/1890)
14.Utah (1/4/1896)
15.Oklahoma (11/16/1907)
16.New Mexico (1/6/1912)
17.Arizona (2/14/1912)
Reasons for Westward Expansion
• Opportunities for land
ownership.
Reasons for Westward Expansion
• Technological advances,
including the Transcontinental
Railroad.
Reasons for Westward Expansion
• Possibility
of obtaining
wealth,
created by
the
discovery of
gold and
silver.
Reasons for Westward Expansion
• Desire for adventure.
Reasons for Westward Expansion
• Desire for a
new beginning
for former
enslaved
African
Americans.
What were the physical
features and climate of the
Great Plains?
• Flatlands that rise
gradually from east to
west.
• Land eroded by
wind and water.
• Low rainfall.
• Frequent dust storms.
Ownership.
–
–
.
& other
technological
advancements.
–
and
Silver/Obtaining wealth.
–
of Slavery (a new
beginning for former
enslaved African Americans).
that rise
gradually from east to
west.
–
for
animals and crops.
–
from wind and
water.
–
are
frequent.
Westward Ho !
• During the nineteenth century,
people’s perceptions and use of
the Great Plains changed.
• Technological advances allowed
people to live in more
challenging environments.
How did people’s perception of the
Great Plains change?
Because of new technologies, people
saw the Great Plains not as a “treeless
wasteland” but as a vast area to be
settled.
Barbed Wire
Kept cattle in and other animals out.
Steel plows:
Used in hard
soil.
1837
John Deere, an Illinois
blacksmith and manufacturer
designed the first cast steel plow
that greatly assisted the Great
Plains farmers in cutting the
tough prairie ground & sticky soil
without clogging (Nicknamed
"grasshopper plows“).
Dry Farming:
Growing crops without irrigation
Sod Houses:
Houses made of Soil.
How did
they do
it?
Sod
The “Soddy”
This is a photograph of the Nasset homestead in the Dakotas, ca. 1860s.
Home sweet Soddy home…
Home sweet Soddy home…
Inside a Sod House
Beef Cattle Raising
Major source of income
and food in the west.
The Cowboy
The open range was perfect for raising cattle for
beef. The practice of the “cowboy” driving cattle
to market became an iconic symbol of the West.
•Nat Love was born in Davidson
County, Tennessee in 1854. After
the Civil War, Love moved to
Dodge City, Kansas at age 15.
•The first job that appealed to Nat
Love was herding cattle as a
cowboy. Love's first test was given
to him by Bronco Jim who had
Love to ride Good Eye, a horse
known for bucking and throwing a
man off the saddle. Love stayed on
Good Eye and was hired, at $30 a
month, as a cowboy.
•Love worked the cattle drives for
20 years.
•When Nat Love retired as a
cowboy in 1890, he worked as
Pullman porter on the Denver and
Rio Grande Railroad. Nat Love died
in 1921.
African American men worked as cattle drivers, cooks,
miners, railroad workers, and fur traders. Others became
farmers. Some went west as U.S. soldiers as revealed by
the Buffalo Soldiers. When work was scarce, African
American men worked as unskilled laborers, and service
workers. Others became western deputy marshals/law
men and cowboys.
African American women of the West were also a part of
this inclusive history. Research has shown that they
worked all sorts of jobs as women of the West. They were
employed as domestics, farm workers, seamstresses,
innkeepers, cooks, laundresses, school teachers, general
store operators, church and Sunday school teachers, and
nurses.
Bill Pickett was born near Taylor, Texas in 1870. He was later called the "Greatest
Cowboy" of his day. In 1905 he joined the 101 Wild West Shows as they traveled
across the country and in Canada, South America, and even Great Britain. In
1932, while still active in the Wild West Shows, Bill Pickett was killed when he
was kicked in the head by a wild bronco.
Wheat Farming
Wheat
Farming:
Crop easily
grown in
dry areas.
Windmills:
Used to pump
water.
From Wagon
Trains to the
Transcontinental
Railroad
Chinese
Railroad
Workers.
Chinese railroad workers
transported dirt by the
cartload to fill in
this Secrettown Trestle in
the Sierra Nevada
Mountain.
Railroads:
Transported
goods and
people,
connected
the east to
the west.
A “Boom Town”
Completed 1868.
REVIEW:
Inventions and Adaptations:
• Barbed wire
• Steel plows
• Dry farming
• Sod houses
• Beef cattle raising
• Wheat farming
• Windmills
• Railroads
1846-1848
•The United States gained much of
the Southwest due to the MexicanAmerican War (1846–1848).
•Note: Texas gained independence in
1836 (became a U.S. state in 1845).
1854
•Windmills have been
around since around
500-900 BC for
grinding grain.
•A windmill for
pumping water was
perfected in the United
States in 1854 (the
Halladay Windmill).
A steel-bladed water pumping windmill in
the American Midwest (late 1800's)
1863 Dry Farming: A type of farming practiced in arid
areas without irrigation by planting drought-resistant crops (that mature in
late spring or fall like “winter” wheat) and maintaining a fine surface tilth or
mulch that protects the natural moisture of the soil from evaporation.
Promontory, Utah, on May 10, 1869, as the
Union Pacific tracks joined those of the Central
Pacific Railroad.
1876
The Speese family homestead
Cherry County, Nebraska (1915)
1893
To claim a lot of land, prospective settlers
had to participate in a land run. They lined up and
waited for the blast of a shotgun to signal the
beginning of the run, at which point they would race
eagerly to claim a homestead.
Here is Tom Cruise reenacting the “great land rush”
in the movie “Far and Away”
•Cool Fact: A "Sooner" was someone who snuck past
the territory markers ahead of the shotgun to get an
early start.
American Indians
Section 5.
•How did westward expansion
impact Americans Indians?
•What happened when American
Indians were forced off their
traditional lands and onto
reservations?
The Native
American
Experience
"Inside this boundary all
our people were born. It
circles the graves of
our fathers, and we will
never give up these
graves to any man.“
-Chief Joseph (the Elder) of
the Nez Perce
Joseph succeeded his father as leader of
the Wallowa band in 1871. Before his
death, the latter counseled his son:
“My son, my body is returning to my mother
earth, and my spirit is going very soon to see the
Great Spirit Chief. When I am gone, think of your
country. You are the chief of these people. They
look to you to guide them. Always remember
that your father never sold his country. You must
stop your ears whenever you are asked to sign a
treaty selling your home. A few years more and
white men will be all around you. They have
their eyes on this land. My son, never forget my
dying words. This country holds your father's
body. Never sell the bones of your father and
your mother.”
The Cherokee and the trail of tears.
a. Americans Indians opposed
westward settlement. For about
10 years, in the 1870s, there
were many battles between the
United States armed forces and
the American Indians.
Opposition by American Indians to
westward expansion.
The Battle of Little Bighorn
b. The Battle of Little Bighorn was a temporary
victory for American Indians. They were
defending the land that had been granted to
them in a treaty on the Great Plains. Once gold
was discovered, the treaty was broken. This
battle was nicknamed Custer's Last Stand.
Sitting Bull’s Dream
“…white soldiers will fall from the sky…”
Depictions of the Battle of
Little Big Horn
• c. Sitting Bull, a
spiritual leader, did not
want to be forced from
his lands on the Great
Plains. The Great Plains
Indians set out for a
battle and won
decisively against a
much smaller United
States army force.
Geronimo
From, Geronimo's story
of his life, 1909.
Late one afternoon when returning from town we were met by a few
women & children who told us that Mexican troops from some other
town had attacked our camp, killed all the warriors of the guard,
captured all our ponies, secured our arms, destroyed our supplies, &
killed many of our women and children. Quickly we separated,
concealing ourselves as best we could until nightfall, when we
assembled at our appointed place of rendezvous--a thicket by the
river. Silently we stole in one by one: sentinels were placed, &, when
all were counted, I found that my aged mother, my young wife, & my
three small children were among the slain. There were no lights in
camp, so without being noticed I silently turned away & stood by the
river. How long I stood there I do not know, but when I saw the
warriors arranging for a council I took my place. ”
• Apache leader Geronimo (right) is depicted
with a small group of followers in northern
Mexico in 1886.
“I have killed many Mexicans; I
do not know how many, for
frequently I did not count
them. Some of them were not
worth counting. It has been a
long time since then, but still I
have no love for the
Mexicans. With me they were
always treacherous and
malicious.”
-Geronimo, My Life: The
Geronimo, Chiricahua
Apache Leader.
Ta-ayz-slath, Wife Of
Geronimo, & Child
d. Geronimo, a leader
of American Indians
in the southwest,
refused to go to a
reservation and
sought justice from
settlers in the
southwest. Although
he was eventually
captured, stories of
his bravery made him
a famous figure.
Chief Joseph
An 1889 photograph of Joseph speaking to
ethnologist Alice Cunningham Fletcher and her
interpreter James Stuart.
The surrender of Chief Joseph…
“Tell General Howard I know his heart. What he told me before,
I have it in my heart. I am tired of fighting. Our chiefs are
killed; Looking Glass is dead, Too-hul-hul-sote is dead. The
old men are all dead. It is the young men who say yes or no.
He who led on the young men is dead. It is cold, and we have
no blankets; the little children are freezing to death. My
people, some of them, have run away to the hills, and have
no blankets, no food. No one knows where they are—
perhaps freezing to death. I want to have time to look for my
children, and see how many of them I can find. Maybe I shall
find them among the dead. Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired;
my heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I
will fight no more forever.”
Nez Perce Chief Joseph and his family in
Leavenworth where they were exiled
from 1877 to 1885.
•Chief and his band of Nez Perce
lived peacefully in the Wallowa
Valley of Eastern Oregon until
1877 when the U.S. government
decided to move the band to a
small reservation in Idaho.
When General O.O. Howard
threatened a cavalry attack, a few
dissatisfied warriors raided a
settlement and killed several
whites. Fearing retaliation,
Joseph fled with his band of 700
men, women and children in a
retreat towards Canada that
covered 1400 miles. They finally
gave up 40 miles from the
Canadian border where Joseph
uttered the famous words "From
where the sun now stands, I
will fight no more forever."
Chief Joseph
• e. Chief Joseph of the Nez
Perce Indians in the
Pacific region, and his
people escaped toward
Canada rather than be
forced onto a reservation,
but it was only a
temporary victory. He
eventually surrendered
rather than see innocents
die from cold and
starvation.
How was the
American Indian
population
changed?
Section 6.
a. The
American
Indian
population
was reduced
through
warfare and
disease.
American Indians continued to be forced off their
homelands…and on to government reservations.
The Ghost Dance
Ghost Shirts
A ghost dance was performed by all members joining
hands to create a circle. In the center of the formation
was a sacred tree, or symbol of a tree, decorated with
religious offerings. Looking toward the sun, the
dancers would do a shuffling, counter-clockwise sidestep, chanting while they sang songs of resurrection.
Gradually the tempo would be increased to a great
beat of arousal. Some dances would continue for days
until the participants "died (passed out)," falling to
the ground, rolling around and experiencing visions of
a new land of hope and freedom from white people
which was promised by the messiah. The dance often
produced mass hypnosis in its transfixed participants,
and thus, it became known as the Ghost Dance.
Curious onlookers were prohibited, furthering the
sense of mystery about the ritual and elevating the
tension between the dancers, settlers, and soldiers.
Battle of Wounded Knee
b. The Battle of Wounded Knee was the final
attack on American Indians. They were
celebrating a religious ceremony when the
United States troops, fearing an attack, killed
around 300 men, women, and children.
Assimilation attempts
and lifestyle changes.
ex: reduction of buffalo population
and Indian Schools.
The Buffalo
http://www.allposters.com/IMAGES/NWPPOD/TRAN2A-00022.jpg
c. There were
assimilation
attempts and
lifestyle
changes
because of
the reduction
of the buffalo
population.
Carlisle Indian Industrial School
•American
Indians’
homeland
was reduced
through
broken
treaties.
END
orced to relocate from
traditional lands to reservations.
ssimilation attempts & lifestyle
changes were forced upon them.
eduction of the buffalo
population due to over-hunting.
eduction of native homelands
due to broken treaties.
educed population through
warfare & disease.
• Battle of Little Bighorn
• Battle of Wounded Knee
Many Native Americans welcomed African Americans into their villages. Even as slaves many
African Americans became part of a family group, and many intermarried with Native
Americans - thus many later became classified as Black Indians. Therefore Black Oklahoma
evolved in many areas as biracial communities within Indian nations. This is a unique history,
which developed in many of the western communities where the two groups came together.
“Problems on the
Great Plains”
~Use the picture to describe
how to Solve the Problems
pioneers faced~
1.Perception
• An
understanding
based on
personal
observation or
point of view.
3. Environment
• The physical
features and
climate
within a
given region.
4. Settlement
• A community
established by
settlers.
– For example: A
“boom town” is a
community that
experienced a sudden
growth in population.
5. Natural Resources
•Raw
materials
occurring
naturally in
nature.
6. Products
• Goods
manufactured
using natural
resources.
9. Manufacturing
• The
production
of goods or
services by
hand or
machine.
20. Iron Ore
• The raw
material
needed in
order to
create steel.
21. Steel Mills
• Manufacturing
plants in
which iron ore
is turned into
steel.
25. Battle of Little Bighorn
• An 1876 battle in
Montana near the
Little Bighorn River
between United
States cavalry
General, Armstrong
Custer, and several
groups of Native
Americans led by the
Sioux Chief, Sitting
Bull.
Custer underestimated the size of the Sioux
forces and was killed along with all his
command in this most famous of Native
American victories.
26. Battle of Wounded Knee
• In 1890 on Native –
American
reservation on
Wounded Knee
Creek, nearly 300
Lakota men,
women, and
children were killed
when the U.S.
troops opened fire
on the tribe.
7. Markets
• Centers
where
products,
goods, and
services are
sold.
8. Centers of Population
• Areas in which large groups of
people live and work near
centers of industry.
1. Technological Advances
• Progress in
the use of
scientific
discoveries
to practical
use.
2. Erode
• The movement
of soil from one
place to another
through natural
processes.
– Examples: Wind and
rain.
3. Dust Storm
• A strong wind carrying clouds of
dust across or from a dry region.
4. Barbed Wire
• Wire with sharp points on it
every few inches, used for
fencing.
5. Steel Plow
• A steel farm
implement
used for
cutting and
lifting the soil
and turning it
over.
6. Sod Houses
• Houses made of stacked sod, which
are pieces or layers of dirt
containing the grass and its roots.
7. Beef Cattle Raising
• Raising cattle
for the purpose
of selling the
meat of the
animal at
market as a
means of
income.
8. Wheat Farming
• The growing of
wheat for the
purpose of selling
the crop at
market as a
sustainable
means of income
on the Great
Plains.
9. Windmills
•A machine
worked by
the action of
wind used to
pump water.
10. Dry Farming
• A way of
farming dry
land in which
seed are
planted deep in
the ground
where there is
some moisture.
11. Transcontinental Railroad
• A railroad project
contracted by the
U.S. federal
government in
1863 and
completed in 1869
linking the east and
west coasts.
It was the project of two railroad companies: the Union Pacific built from the east,
and the Central Pacific built from the west. The two lines met in Utah. The Central
Pacific laborers were predominantly Chinese, and the Union Pacific laborers
predominantly Irish. Both groups often worked under harsh conditions.
12. Migration
• The movement of people or
animals from one place to
another.
13. Great Plains (Prairie)
• The Great Plains
are a broad
expanse of flat
land, which lies
west of the
Mississippi River
and east of the
Rocky Mountains
in the United
States.
This area covers parts of the U.S. states of Colorado,
Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North
Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and
Wyoming.
14. Treaty
• A signed,
formal
agreement or
understanding
between two
individuals or
groups of
people.
15. Assimilation
• To adapt
and
conform to
the customs
or attitudes
of a group
or nation.
16. Reservation
• A tract of
public land
set apart for a
special
purpose such
as the use of
an Indian tribe.
17. Geronimo
• This Native–American
was an Apache war
chief was opposed to
Westward Expansion.
– He exacted bloody revenge on
the Mexicans and settlers of the
Southwest for the murder of his
wife, mother, and three children.
– He later surrendered to U.S.
authorities and remained a
prisoner of war until his death in
1909.
Geronimo 1887
Actual signature above.
18. Chief Joseph
• This Native-American
chief of a Nez Perce tribe
in Idaho opposed to
Westward Expansion.
– He tried to move his people to
Canada, while fighting off the U.S.
military, but eventually surrendered
and relocated to a reservation
rather than see more of his people
die.
– Upon his surrender he stated,
“From where the sun now stands, I
will fight no more forever.”
19. Sitting Bull
• Native-American chief
of the Sioux nation
opposed to Westward
Expansion.
– He is most famous for the multi-tribal
victory known as the battle of Little
Big Horn or Custer’s Last Stand in 1876.
– Sitting Bull would later surrender in
1881 and be forced onto a reservation
where he is killed by Indian police in
1890.
Actual signature above.
20. Nez Perce`
• This Native-American
tribal nation lived
mainly in the Pacific
Northwest of the
United States; the
name translates to
“The People.”
• Their descendants
now inhabit a
reservation in Idaho.
Assignment
• Make a large timeline with all the important
events included in westward expansion.
– 1. Use 5 or more colors.
– 2. Mark the date on the timeline (16 in all).
– 3. Draw a picture by “at least” 10 events to
represent the events. (More for Bonus Points.)
– 4. Choose what your groups believes is the 5
most important events and describe how it
effected westward expansion. (More for Bonus
Points.)
Bell Ringer
Create 2 columns…
In column 1: Using the power point notes
that you created the timeline with; what do
you believe is the 5 most important events
that affected westward expansion?
In column 2: How did these event effect
westward expansion?
Bell Ringer Quizlet
• 1.How did Native Americans try to
assimilate to white culture?
• 2. Why did Native Americans move west?
• 3. What happened when Native
Americans moved west?
• 4. Why did African Americans move West
after Reconstruction?
and WRITE “Great Plains” in
BLACK -Use the class copy of the U.S. map.
REVIEW:
Reasons for Westward Expansion
L – Land Ownership.
A – Adventure.
R – Railroads, barbed wire, & other
technological advancements.
G – Gold and Silver/Obtaining wealth.
E – End of Slavery (a new beginning for
former enslaved African Americans).
REVIEW:
Reasons Homesteaders “FLED”
from the west.
F – Flat lands that rise slowly from east to
west.
L – Little rainfall; general lack of water
drinking for animals & crops; arid climate.
E – Erosion from wind and water.
D – Dust storms.
Ownership.
–
–
.
& other
technological
advancements.
–
and
Silver/Obtaining wealth.
–
of Slavery (a new
beginning for former
enslaved African Americans).
that rise
gradually from east to
west.
–
for
animals and crops.
–
from wind and
water.
–
are
frequent.
orced to relocate from
traditional lands to reservations.
ssimilation attempts & lifestyle
changes were forced upon them.
eduction of the buffalo
population due to over-hunting.
eduction of native homelands
due to broken treaties.
educed population through
warfare & disease.
• Battle of Little Bighorn
• Battle of Wounded Knee
____________ to relocate from
traditional lands to _________________.
_______________ attempts & lifestyle
changes were ____________upon them.
_____________ of the _____________
population due to over-hunting.
_________________ of native
___________ due to __________ _________.
_____________ population through
______________& disease.
• EX: Battle of ____________________
• EX: Battle of ____________________
Ownership.
–
–
.
&
other technological
advancements.
–
and
Silver/Obtaining _______.
–
(a new beginning for former
enslaved African Americans).
that
rise gradually from east to
west.
–
for
animals and crops.
–
from
wind and water.
–
are frequent.
Assignment:
Make a Poster
with…
1. Lots of color.
2. At least 3 reasons
someone would
want to go west.
3. At least 1 picture.
4. Explains what your
new home will look
like.
REVIEW:
Reasons for Westward Expansion
L – Land Ownership.
A – Adventure.
R – Railroads, barbed wire, & other
technological advancements.
G – Gold and Silver/Obtaining wealth.
E – End of Slavery (a new beginning for
former enslaved African Americans).
Reasons Homesteaders “FLED”
from the west.
F – Flat lands that rise slowly from east to
west.
L – Little rainfall; general lack of water
drinking for animals & crops; arid climate.
E – Erosion from wind and water.
D – Dust storms.