Unit 7-The West

After the Civil War, a dynamic period in American history opened-the settlement of the West. The lives of Western miners, farmers, and ranchers were often filled with great hardships, but the wave of American settlers continued. Railroads hastened this migration. During this period, many Native Americans lost their homelands and their way of life.

ACT EOC C.1.G and C.1.H

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Vocabulary

• Placer Mining
• Quartz Mining
• Henry Comstock
• Vigilance Committee
• Open Range
• Long Drive
• Chisholm Trail
• Maverick
• Barbed Wire
• Great Plains
• Homestead Act
• Homestead
• Dry Farming
• Sodbuster
• Wheat Belt
• Bonanza Farm
• Nomad
• Annuity
• Little Crow
• Indian Peace Commission
• George A Custer
• Sitting Bull
• Ghost Dance
• Assimilate
• Allotment
• Dawes Act

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Miners/Ranchers in the West
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Farmers in the West
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Native Americans Notes Slides
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Native Americans Notes
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Study Guide Part 1
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Study Guide Part 2
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Study Guide Part 3
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Big Ideas

• Trace the growth of the mining industry in the West.
• Describe the ways that new technologies changed open-range ranching.
• Explain how and why people began to settle the Great Plains.
• Trace the growth of commercial farming on the Great Plains.
  
• Identify and evaluate the influences on the development of the American West.
  
• Discuss conflicts that arose between the Plains Indians and American settlers.
• Summarize problems caused by attempts to assimilate Native Americans.
  
• Analyze significant events for Native American Indian tribes, and their responses to those events.