Chapter 19: The New WestEssential Questions & Focus(Ch19 & Ch21 are mini-Units combined)

Essential QuestionsCh19 – The New West

1. What made Indian tribes on the Great Plains unique? (sec.1)2. How did mining and railroads change the West? (sec.2)3. Why was cattle ranching important to America? (sec.3)4. Who was at fault in the conflict between whites & Native people? (sec.4)5. Why did farmers see the West as a good opportunity? (sec.5)

Section 1: Indian Peoples of the Great PlainsFocus: How did the horse change life for native people on the Great Plains?

What was the most important thing to the survival of native people on the Great Plains?

Vocabulary:Great PlainsAgriculture

NomadicTepee

Section 2: Mining and RailroadingFocus: How did the Comstock Lode attract white settles to the West?

How did a transcontinental railroad change the West?

Vocabulary:Comstock LodeBoomtown

Ghost townTranscontinental Railroad

Section 3: The Cattle KingdomFocus: Why did cowboys and cattle increase on the Great Plains?

What was a cattle drive?

Vocabulary:Cattle drive Cow towns

Section 4: Indian Peoples in RetreatFocus: What did the US government promise in the Ft. Laramie Treaty?

What were causes of the violence between whites and native people?Where were Indians sent to live?What was happening to the buffalo?How did Col. Custer and 225 soldiers of the 7th Calvary met there end at the Little Bighorn?

What happened at Wounded Knee (1890)?Why did the Dawes Act fail to help native people?

Vocabulary:Ft. Laramie TreatyMassacreReservationBlack Hills

Battle of the Little Bighorn (Custer’s Last Stand)Sitting Bull & Crazy HorseChief Joseph

GeronimoGhost DanceWounded KneeDawes Act

Section 5: Farming Focus: How did the Homestead Act (1862) encourage settlers to move west?

Why were “Exodusters” moving west?Why is Oklahoma (Indian Territory) a good example of how badly the US govt. treated natives?Why were farmers called “sodbusters”?How was life difficult for sodbusters?

Vocabulary:Homestead Act Exodusters Sodbusters

Chapter 21: A New Urban CultureEssential Questions & Focus(Ch19 & Ch21 are mini-Units combined)

Essential QuestionsCh21 Sec1 & Sec2 – A New Urban Culture

1. What made life difficult for “new immigrants” but also rewarding? (sec.1)2. How did reforms help improve cities in the late 1800s? (sec.2)

Section 1: New Immigrants in a Promised LandFocus: What “pushed” or “pulled” immigrants to the US?

What happened to immigrants at Ellis Island or Angle Island?Who were “old” and “new” immigrants?How did immigrants recreate their homelands in the US?What did nativists believe would happen to America because of immigrants?How did the US govt. try to restrict immigration?

Vocabulary:Push FactorPull FactorSteerageOld Immigrants

New ImmigrantsEthnic neighborhoodsAcculturationNativists

Chinese Exclusion ActRestricting

Section 2: An Age of CitiesFocus: What drew people to cities in the late 1800s?

Where did poor live within cities?What did Jacob Riis show in his photos and book?Who and what helped to reform cities?

Vocabulary:UrbanizationTenementsHow the Other Half Lives

Building codesSalvation ArmySettlement houses (Hull House)

Jane Addams