US History- Westward Expansion and Frontier Terms, Objectives, Calendar
Big Picture: How and why was the West settled and what issues were particular to that
region?
Objectives:
The student will:
1. Describe how industrialism and capitalism impacted the US economy and
spurred regional interdependence
2. Summarize the reasons settlers headed west and the routes they took.
3. Discuss their impact on Native Americans.
4. Explain why Texas developed as it did, and how they gained independence.
5. List reasons for and against the war with Mexico.
6. Describe the war with Mexico.
7. Identify territory acquired by the US in the antebellum period.
8. Summarize why relations between the US and Native Americans were strained.
9. Describe how the cattle industry boomed and identify what role cowboys
played.
10. Discuss the reasons for and goals of the Populist Movement.
Terms:
Chapter 9:
Samuel F.B. Morse
“Fifty-Four Forty or Fight”
Specialization
Stephen F. Austin
Market Revolution
Land Grant
Capitalism
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
Enterpreneur
Texas Revolution
Telegraph
Alamo
John Deere
Sam Houston
Cyrus McCormick
Republic of Texas
Manifest Destiny
Annex
Treaty of Fort Laramie
James K. Polk
Sante Fe Trail
Zachary Taylor
Oregon Trail
Stephen Kearney
Mormons
Republic of California
Joseph Smith
Winfield Scott
Brigham Young
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Gadsden Purchase
Gold Rush
Forty-Niners
Chapter 13:
Great Plains
Treaty of Fort Laramie
Sitting Bull
George A. Custer
Assimilation
Dawes Act
Battle of Wounded Knee
Longhorn
Chisholm Trail
Long Drive
Homesteader Act
Exoduster
Soddy
Morrill Act
Bonanza Farm
Oliver Hudson Kelley
Grange
Farmers’ Alliances
Populism
Bimetallism
Gold Standard
William McKinley
William Jennings Bryan
9-14
9-21
Lecture:
Manifest
Destiny
HWWorksheet
Chapter 9
Section 3
9-28
Analyze docs
9-15
9-16
9-22
9-23
Posters Gallery: Present Posters
War with
Mexico
Start DBQ:
Read
Background
Essay
9-17
Reconstruction
Test
9-18
Discuss
Reading
Westward
Expansion
Reading
Worksheet
Chapter 9
Section 1
9-24
Group
Documents into
analytical
categories
and begin
analysis
9-25
No School For
You
10-1
Write thesis
10-2
Lecture: Native
American
Relations
HW- Read all
documents and
assign
analytical
categories to
each.
9-29
Analyze Docs
9-30
Analyze Docs
Outline DBQ
Essay
10-5
Cowboy
Activity
HWWorksheet
Chapter 13
Section 2
10-6
Chapter 13
Section 3 Notes
in Class
Political
Cartoon
10-7
Review
10-8
TEST on
Chapters 9 and
HW- Study for 13
TEST
HW- Study for
US Map Quiz
HWWorksheet
Chapter 13
Section 1
10-9
US Map Quiz