Monday - No School
Tuesday - Review Day
Study - PowerPoint, Podcasts, Justice John Roberts, Definitions, Qualifications, Maps
Wednesday - Test Day 1
Thursday - Test Day 2
Friday - New Chapter
Why did people move west? They moved west for food, mining, gold and silver, hunting, farming, ranching
Manifest Destiny - God given right to move west
Cattle Ranching - Needed food and they were a high demand
Sheep herding - Clothing, wool
Reapers - made it easy to harvest along with the plow, windmill, barbed wire
Homestead Act - Special acts of Congress that made lands in the West available to all settlers
Gold and Silver mining - California, Nevada, South Dakota, Alaska
Railroads were for transportation. The majority of the people were Chinese. They came to California.
Describe a cowboys life
Importance of Buffalo
How did US government deal with native American
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