“The more Indians we can kill this year, the less will have to be killed the next war.”

-General William Tecumseh Sherman

Native AmericansPolicy toward Native Americans changed over

time # the 4 policy changes 1 – 4Removal – Indian Removal Act, 1830, Pres. Jackson

-move the 5 “civilized” nations to Oklahoma so white settlers could have the good land-”Trail of Tears”

Reservations – 1850’s (p. 438)-white settlers wanted western lands-break up power of Plains Indians & open up their land for settlement

• Assimilation (p. 442) -becoming similar to the people around you-reformers believed they would be better off if they abandoned their culture and adopted the culture of white America-established the Bureau of Indian Affairs

forced kids to go to school-boys had to cut their hair-wear American clothing vs skins & blankets-speak English-no face paint

-discouraged from practicing their own culture

“They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never

kept but one.

They promised to take our land, and they took it.”

-Red Cloud

Dawes Act 1887 (p. 443)-Americanize the Native Americans-broke up reservations & turned

Native Americans into individual property owners

-Not successful since the best land was sold off and the poor land given to the Native Americans

“What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken?

Not one.

What treaty that the white man ever made with us have they kept? Not one.”

-Sitting Bull

Resistance Indian Wars• Sand Creek Massacre p. 440 – do yourself• “Long Walk”

-Navajos from AZ, NM, UT and CO were forced to relocate to Fort Sumner at Bosque Redondo, NM-1st reservation west of OK-After 4+ years, they were allowed to return to their native lands along the NM-AZ border-Today, the Navajo Nation is the largest Native American community in the US

homework

•finish the summaries about Native American resistance

• Welcome back! I hope you had a good week off.• You may continue to complete work from the 1st 9 weeks if you

need to. It will not change your report card grade but it will increase your % so that when grades are averaged you will be in better shape.

• Remember that your semester grade is what goes on your transcript and counts towards your overall GPA. For this class, your semester grade will be calculated like this:– 1st 9 weeks = 40%– 2nd 9 weeks = 40%– District essay final exam = 10%– District multiple choice exam = 10%

Warm up 10/15/12-this starts a new notebook

grade so begin on a new page

• Read the 2 paragraphs under the heading “Major Western Trails” p. 297

• Read about 1 of the 3 trails. Write down 4 facts.

Take out your pink packet

1st page should be complete.Back of page 3 should be complete• We are completing front of page 2 today• In the margin of page 2, write “Manifest

Destiny”– Read p. 297 and explain what it means

Mountain Men• Sense of adventure; rugged individuals• Lived by hunting and fur trading• Provided information about the West for

future settlement• link between whites and Native Americans

Arizona Connection:Bill Williams – Williams, AZPauline Weaver – Weaver’s Needle in the

Superstitions

Mormons• Church founded in 1830 in NY by Joseph

Smith• Persecuted by religious and political groups• Smith & followers moved to OH and then IL• Began “trek” to West in 1846 led by

Brigham Young• Arrived in Salt Lake valley in 1847 – it was

Mexican territory at the timeArizona Connection:

Mesa established in 1877 as a Mormon settlement

Miners• California Gold Rush – 1849• Other Gold Rushes followed• Silver and copper also discovered

– the miners moved west east as lodes ran out or new ones were discovered

Arizona Connection:

Tombstone, Bisbee, Globe, Jerome and many other towns began as mining settlements

Warm up 10/16/12• Read p. 460 “Tentacles of Steel”• Using complete sentences, answer these 2

questions:1. Why did the government begin to regulate

the railroads? 2. Why was the Southern Pacific Railroad

thought of as an octopus?

Railroad

• Write 3 facts from the video in the margin of the “Railroad” page

Railroads (map. 462)• America’s first BIG business• Transcontinental Railroad completed in 1869 at

Promontory Point Summit, Utah• 1870-1890 - huge growth in western railroads• Immigrants provided labor force• Federal government gave companies land for

each mile of track laidAnd in Exchange…

• Railroads agreed to transport mail and soldiers at reduced rates

Effects of railroad construction• Faster & Easier to get across the country• encouraged people to move onto the

Great Plains• Construction provided jobs for immigrants,

especially Chinese and Irish• Boosted US economy• Physically united America• Loss of buffalo severely hurt the Native

Americans (the buffalo was their Super Wal-Mart)

Construction made possible by:

• Favorable terrain (except for those Rocky mountains!)

• Land grants from the Federal Govt• Large number of immigrants looking

for work(especially Chinese & Irish)

Transcontinental Railroad

Central Pacific

California

Chinese Workers

Union Pacific

Irish Workers

One Effect of the Railroad

• Summary activity: In your notebook, under today’s warm up, write a 6 sentence paragraph with the following line as your topic sentence:

• “The railroads changed the American West in positive and negative ways.”

• Homework if you do not finish

Ranchers• Demand for beef skyrocketed after Civil War• Texas provided grassland good for ranching (Texas Longhorns)• Problem was getting cattle to market

– Problem solved when railroads reached Kansas• “Long Drive” – huge herds moved from Texas to Kansas along

cattle trails:Goodnight – Loving, Chisholm, and other trails

“Myth of the cowboy” – independent, rugged life glamorized and became the subject of many films and TV shows (Western)

End of the Long Drive caused by:• Drought and blizzards, 1883-1887• Barbed Wire invented by Joseph Glidden• Railroad extended into Texas

From her journal…

“Rose about five. Had early breakfast. Got my house work done about nine. Baked 6 loaves of bread. Made a kettle of mush and have now suet pudding and beef boiling…I have managed to put my clothes away and set my house in order. may the merciful be with me through the unexpected scene. Nine o’clock p.m. was delivered of another son.”

pass last nights hw forward please

• take out paper, tear in ½ to share with your neighbor

• we are taking a quick quiz• take out your pink packet• begins in 3 minutes

Marilla R. Washburn BaileyFrom an interview with her at age 87“I was married at 15, and was not a good cook and

housekeeper, but I knew how to take care of babies, from having cared for my brothers and sisters. I had ten babies of my own and never had any help…I could paddle my own canoe or handle a rowboat as well as an Indian…When my husband was away, I could hunt for the meat on which we lived, for I could handle a revolver or rifle as well as most men. I have shot bears, deer, and all sorts of smaller game. In fact, I became so expert with a revolver that at 50 or 100 feet I could beat most men.”

Farmers (a.k.a.Homesteaders)*Homestead Act of 1862*160 acres of land for free

*If a settler would:– Live on the land for 5 years and cultivate the land– Improve the land– Build a house (12’x14’), with a window and door

Effect of the Homestead Act…By 1900, 400,000 homesteaders had acquired farms

Exodusters – African American farmers who moved west in hope of gaining free land

map of plains states

Problems faced by settlers on the plains:Difficult climate: Hot, dry summers; cold, severe

winters; sudden, severe storms (hail, tornados)• Few trees

– Houses and fences difficult to build – sod for houses and wire for fences

– Fuel – burned “buffalo chips” for heating and cooking• Root-filled soil• Few streams for transportation/ irrigation• Getting crops to markets in Eastern cities

Many farmers did not succeed in homesteading

Mary Richardson Walker• Missionary wife who moved in the 1830s to a

farm near Spokane, WashingtonHer work day averaged 16 hours. She was

responsible for washing, ironing, sewing [she made all the family’s clothes, including shoes], baking, making, soap and cheese, churning butter, dipping candles, weaving carpets, and salting and smoking meats.

New technology helped farmers• Windmill• Steel plow (John Deere)• Barbed wire (Joseph Glidden)• Reaping machine (Cyrus McCormick)• RailroadsOf these 5 inventions, which do you

think was most important for the farmer? Why?

All of these groups of people adventuring westward helped the

country grow.• Let’s look at 5 different regions that became

part of the United States thanks to westward expansion.

• stack your 3 pieces of paper so that there is about 1 inch of each piece showing

• fold the papers down so that now there are 6 tabs, fold your paper in half lengthwise

• Cut in ½ and share with your neighbor

On the top square, write …“America grew as a nation during the

time of westward expansion”

write the following on each edge

Northwest Territory Oregon Country Mexican Cession Gadsden Purchase Alaska

For each area, you must include the following information:

• map for location• date acquired by the US• name of country the land was obtained from• how the US got the land• physical characteristics: rivers, mtns, forests,

plains, etc• human characteristics: religion, how the

people make a living, ethnic groups there, etc.Just lift up the flap, use your text to complete the information. Add color to earn extra points.

Due Thurs.

complete your map with yesterday’s partner

• If you were gone yesterday, work with someone who was also gone or work alone

• If you finish early, you may complete the questions in the pink packet under the map directions

• OR• complete the yellow foldable or p. 307 if you

owe either of them

Westward quiz

1. Name one way America acquired new land.

2. Name one country the US got new land from.

3. What is manifest destiny?4. Who were Lewis, Clark and Pike?5. Why is the moving of Native

Americans westward often called a “Trail of Tears”?

England’s Industrial Revolution Affects the United States

(put this title on the top square)

• Read p. 251, explain Samuel Slater’s role in starting the American Industrial Revolution. How did he get to the US, what did he bring, what did he do when he arrived?

• Write this information on the front flap of your note packet under the title

5 tabs on note packet

• Factory system• urbanization• transportation• inventions• summary

Factory system p. 252 - 253

• Textiles –

• Lowell, Mass –

• Lowell girls -

refers to products used to make material which is then used to make clothing, carpet, etc.

40 mills with 10,000 loomscenter of textile industryall aspects of textile production occurred in 1 factory

most of the factory workers were young womencame from local farmsgood money but long hourslived in boardinghouses owned by the factories

Urbanization p. 253

• stats -

• north evolved from…

Transportation p. 253 - 255

• Canals –

• Steamboats –

• Railroads –

cheaper and faster than using wagonsmanufactured goods went West and farm goods went East

• Erie Canal connected Great Lakes to Atlantic Ocean

Fulton – steam engine in boats very popular along the Mississippi & Ohio RiversMark Twain??

1830 – 23 miles of railroad track in US1840 – 3000 miles of trackreplaced canals as the best method of transporting people and goods

inventions• telegraph – p. 255

• cotton gin – p. 257

• interchangeable parts – allowed for mass production on assembly lines– examples: muskets

clocks production machines w/guages to

insure that all parts are exactly the same

Samuel Morse, sent messages using electricity, messages delivered immediately, quickly adopted by railroads and newspapers

-separated seeds out of the cotton so that cotton was worth growing- invented by Eli Whitney- made large-scale production of cotton possible-increased the need for slave labor-”King Cotton”

summary (closure for today’s lesson)

top ½ of paper, write a paragraph about what you see as transportation needs for the area you live in. What would you like to see, what would make your life easier?

bottom ½ of the paper, complete these 3 summary activities

• list 2 inventions• list 2 transportation improvements• explain urbanization

westward expansion games• choose a group of 2 – 3 people• design a game to review this unit• we will play them to review for the test• if it requires tokens or dice please bring that in

tomorrow• write the directions• include questions from the following:

– pink packet– Lewis & Clark pink wkst– yellow note packet– Green note packet– p. 307 texas independence