the push west

October 27, 2010Bell Ringer:

1. Test Corrections.

2. When you are finished with your test corrections; read and highlight the handout on “Homesteading.”

Objectives:

I.W.B.A.T. list some of the reasons different people moved west.

I.W.B.A.T. describe how the “Homestead Act of 1862” affected westward expansion.

Assignments:Make a “Broadside with… -lots of color.-2 reasons someone would want to go west.-Explains what your new colony look like.

The Push West

The Old West of America involved the expansion of seventeen future states, which entered the Union as listed chronologically by earliest entry date:

The Old West of America involved the expansion of seventeen future states, which entered the Union as listed chronologically by earliest entry date

1. Texas (12/29/1845) 2. California (9/9/1850) 3. Oregon (2/14/1859) 4. Kansas (1/29/1861)

5. Nevada (10/31/1864) 6. Nebraska (3/1/1867) 7. Colorado (8/1/1876)

8. North Dakota (11/2/1889)

1. South Dakota (11/2/1889) 10.Montana (11/8/1889)

11.Washington (11/11/1889) 12.Idaho (7/3/1890)

13.Wyoming (7/10/1890) 14.Utah (1/4/1896)

15.Oklahoma (11/16/1907) 16.New Mexico (1/6/1912)

17.Arizona (2/14/1912)

Homework Tonight:

Make a “Broadside with…

1. -lots of color.2. -2 reasons someone would want to go west.3. -Explains what your new colony look like.

October 27, 2010Bell Ringer:

1. Test Corrections.

2. When you are finished with your test corrections; read and highlight the handout on “Homesteading.”

Objectives:

I.W.B.A.T. list some of the reasons different people moved west.

I.W.B.A.T. describe how the “Homestead Act of 1862” affected westward expansion.

Assignments:Make a “Broadside with… -lots of color.-2 reasons someone would want to go west.-Explains what your new colony look like.

October 29, 2010Bell Ringer:

1. How did the “Homestead Act of 1862” affect westward expansion?

2. List some of the reasons African Americans & different people moved west.

Objectives:

I.W.B.A.T. describe how westward expansion affected Native Americans.

I.W.B.A.T. describe how westward expansion changed the landscape of the Southwest.

Assignments: Finish Worksheet on Native American (Westward Expansion).Have a great weekend!!!!