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Chapter 16:The American West
The student is expected to know (desired outcomes):
• What was the American West?• What drove people to move west and how did they
get there?• What major events shaped the West?• Who were the major people/groups who had an
impact?• Who were most affected by the settling of the
West?• How did the idea of the West shape America?
Evaluate, support, defend • Is US history a history of progress? Has the gap
between rich and poor improved?
Today’s Agenda• Review handouts• SQR3: Chapter 16, Transformation of the West
– Survey/scan section headings, maps, chronology– Question
• Main point• Evidence• Application• How is it related to what you know
– Read– Recite– Review
• Read (576) Chief Joseph’s speech (pair-share)
• List “Big Topics”; then JIGSAW
NOTE: READING QUIZ (assessment) Jan 6/7, 2010
1. BIG TOPICS/IDEAS focus on concepts, principles, or process=enduring (Magna Carta)
2. Important to know and do
3. Worth being familiar with
Chief Joseph• Read passage on p. 576• As you read, take notes• Why do YOU think the
authors included this passage to introduce the chapter?
pair-share• WHAT IS THE WEST?
– What do we know?– What do we expect to
know
►Images of the West
►Changed the focus from the industrial East to the frontier
►Physical description/abundant landThe Great Plainsaka Great American Desertmountains The Spanish southwest Natural resourcesWoodlands and forests
►The Indian Questionfrom co-existence to near extermination to reservationsdevelopment of federal Indian policy and the Indians wars
► Issue of land ownership
Big Topics► Getting There-trails and rails
transcontinental railroad
► Getting richmining, gold, and boomtownscattle ranching farming (Homestead Acttrade
► Conflict between various factions
► Experiences of the various groups as they moved into the westWho came and from where?Why?
► Explain Turner’s thesis
“The Significance of the Frontier in American History”• Example of historiography• 1890 census noted: There can
hardly be said to be a frontier line”
• Turner postulated the frontier and free land – explained American development,– shaped customs and character,– gave rise to independence, self-
confidence, and individualism, and– Fostered innovation and adaption
• BUT what’s the counterview?(diversity, women, environmental
consequences, and economics)
SO what is the west?
Mining Regions of the West
Consider•Innovation and business profit•Environment and conservation•Boomtowns-problems
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