Wounded Knee

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

The West: After reading the passage and scanning the chapter, what are the

BigTopics?

►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?

Physiographic Map of the U.S.

Native Americans in the West: Major Battles and Reservations

Mining Regions of the West

Consider•Innovation and business profit•Environment and conservation•Boomtowns-problems

Cattle Trails

Why cattle drives?

Who were cowboys?

Why does the lore of the cowboy prevail?

Agricultural Land Use in the 1880s

What do editorial cartoons tell us?