Week of Sep 19-23

Monday: Semester Test Questions

First Semester Questions:

1. What are the main historic events that took place in 8th Grade US History that helped shape the United States up to 1877? Choose your tip five

2. How did the US change during the late 1800's and early 1900's?

3. What impact did the Progressives have on the US?

4. Describe US Foreign Policy in the late 1800's and early 1900's and be able to give examples

5. What impact did WWI have on the US and what impact did the US have on WWI?

6. What positive and negative impact did the 1920's have on the US?

Decades Project (Thursday, Friday, Monday- work days)
- PowerPoint or video documentary

Chap. 5-6: Moving West and Industrial Revolution

Moving West (mid to late 1800's)

Why did the settlers/ people move to the Great Plains/West?
1. Great Plains originally called Great American Desert
  1. Missouri River to Rocky Mountains
2. People moved West due to hunting, cattle ranching, farming, sheep herding, gold rushes and mining, working on the railroad
3. Manifest Destiny
  1. God given right to expand from Atlantic to Pacific Ocean
4. Homestead Act
  1. Act that gives 160 acres to anyone that promise to build a home and farm on that land
5. Mountain Men
  1. Guys that live in the mountains
6. US Military
  1. Plains wars

Tuesday: Moving West and Industrial Revolution

Describe a cowboy's life.
1. Long drive (Texas to Kansas)
  1. Herding and moving cattle
  2. Fences killed open range and long drives
  3. Peaked between 1867-1880
2. Open Range
  1. Area of land where cattle roam free
3. Rail head Towns
  1. Towns at the end of railroads
4. Ranchers
  1. People who owned ranches and cattle
5. Texas Longhorns
  1. Cross breed of cattle
6. Cattle Barons
  1. Bigger ranchers pushed out smaller ranches
7. 25% of cowboys were ex-slaves
8. Life of a cowboy was lonely and dangerous
9. Dodge City
  1. Kids had lots of money to be spent
    1. Drinking
    2. Gambling
    3. Fights
    4. Prostitution
    5. Gunfights/duels
10. Wyatt Earp
  1. Famous western sheriff
11. Wild Bill Hickok
  1. Sheriff
12. Cattle put into stockyards where they are either sold or slaughtered
  1. Omaha Stockyards
  2. Kansas City Stockyards
  3. Chicago Stockyards (biggest)
13. Long drives came to an end due to railroads

Wednesday: speaker

Thursday: Moving West and Industrial Revolution

Describe the importance of the buffalo to Native American and how the buffalo were destroyed
How did the US government deal with Native Americans in the mid to late 1800's? What were their policies?
1. Go to war with them
2. They couldn't own land and got pushed on to reservations
3. Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854
  1. Indian Territory of the now state of Oklahoma gets split in half
4. Destruction of buffalo hit Native Americans hard
  1. White people only used pelts or hunted them for sport
  2. Native Americans used every part of buffalo
5. Dawes Act-1887
  1. Gave land to Native american families to farm like the white men
  2. Ended tribal ownership of land
  3. Those that do this will be granted US citizenship
  4. Goal was to "Americanize" Native-Americans (make them like the white man)
  5. Native-Americans lost much of their land
  6. Not required but other option was death
  7. Ended in 1930's under President Roosevelt's Indian Reorganization Act
    1. Said that they didn't have to live like the white man anymore
6. Famous Indian War Battles
  1. Sand Creek Massacre-1864
  2. Battle of the Hundred Slain-1866
  3. Red River War-1874-75
  4. Battle of Little Bighorn-1876
  5. Battle of Wounded Knee-1860

Friday: Moving West and Industrial Revolution

How did railroads and the Homestead Act help settle the Great Plains?
1. Railroad brought people to the West
2. Homestead Act gave people land in Great Plains area to farm
What challenges did settlers/ farmers face on the Great Plains?
1. Lonely
  1. No neighbors
2. Bad weather
  1. Drought
  2. Sandstorms
  3. Blizzards
  4. Flooding
3. Grasshopper Plagues
  1. Hit farms hard in the 1870's
  2. Extinct as of 1902
  3. Covered the whole sky
  4. Ate the crops
  5. Ate clothes
4. Hard work
  1. Sun up to sun down
  2. Back-breaking work
5. Native Americans
  1. Native American attacks on settlers
6. Lack of trees
  1. Had to have sod houses
  2. Dust storms
7. Railroad prices
8. Debt
How did settlers/ farmers solve some of these problems?
1. Loneliness
  1. Grange
  2. Bigger families
2. Bad Weather
  1. Farmers got educated on how to take care of their land
  2. Planted trees
  3. Irrigating
3. Grasshopper Plagues
  1. Luckily it ended
4. Hard work
  1. Left home and got away from work
  2. New technology
5. Native Americans
  1. Guns
  2. US Government/ Military
6. Lack of trees
  1. Planted trees
7. Railroad prices
8. Debt

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