Monday - No School
Wednesday - Take test
Thursday - Part 2 of test
Friday - Ch. 5 - Moving West -
Key Questions:
1. Why did settlers/people move to the Great Plains/West?
Farming, cattle ranching, gold, hunting, (lots of buffalo, deer, rabbits)
Cattle Ranching - Cattle were in high demand because there were a lot of people in cities who needed food.
Sheep-herding - wool, clothing
Reaper - invention to help farm/made harvest quicker and easier.
Other inventions - Plow, windmill, barbed wire (very hard to break the ground for seeds because ground has never been touched, water for animals and people, no longer had to be free range.
Gold and Silver Mining - (Nevada, South Dakota, [took away from Indians because we found gold], Colorado, Alaska) rivers with shakers, mined into mountains (dynamite) Not many people became rich.
Working on the Railroad - Union Pacific (Omaha) and Central Pacific (Sacramento, California) ended in (Colorado) = Transcontinental Railroad
Most were Chinese (Came to California because China was having issues in war and poverty)
2. Describe a cowboy's life
3. Describe the importance of the buffalo to Native Americans and how the buffalo were destroyed.
4. How did the US gov't deal with Native Americans in the mid to late 1800's? What were their policies?
*Manifest Destiny - God given right to move west
Why? Our right was to go anywhere.
The Homestead Act - Government gave people 160 acres to farm (free/clear) many took advantage. 600,000 families (96,000,000 acres of land)
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