Chapter 13 Changes on the Western Front



Chapter 13 Changes on the Western Front

Time Period: 1877-1900

Pages: 406-433

Chapter Objective: To analyze the settlement of the Great Plains during the late 1800s and to examine Native American policies, private property rights, and the Populist movement

Section 1: Cultures Clash on the Prairie

Section 2: Settling on the Great Plains

Section 3: Farmers and the Populist Movement

Sunshine State Standards:

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|effects on the American people. |

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|in response to the Industrial Revolution. |

Monday, September 12, 2011 Tuesday, September 13,2011

Purple Day – Odd White Day - Even

Set notebook up for Chapter 13

Vocabulary Chapter 13 – Complete

Chapter 13, Section 1

Textbook Pages: 420-424

1. How did the discovery of gold affect the settlement of the West?

2. What happened at Sand Creek?

3. What were the terms of the Treaty of Fort Laramie? Why did it fail?

4. What happened at the Battle of Little Bighorn?

5. What was the purpose of the Dawes Act?

6. What happened at Wounded Knee Creek?

Pick One: TV Newscast, Song, Rap, Poem or Play….Your choice

Divide tables up, each table will be given a battle or section of the book and create a newscast about that battle.

Pick One:

a. Lure of Silver and Gold (Page 410), also Gold Mining (Pages 418-419)

b. Massacre at Sand Creek (Page 410)

c. Death on the Bozeman Trail (Page 410)

d. Red River War (Page 412)

e. Dawes Act (Pages 421-413)

f. Battle of Wounded Knee (Pages 413-414)

Each person will have a role in the newscast and will take part in front of the class:

A reporter

An Indian begin interviewed

A soldier being interviewed

Someone who sees both points: point of Indian and of the United States trying to claim more land as U.S. land for settlers.

Then, back to reporter for wrap up.

GROUP MUST ACT IT OUT, DO NOT READ BLAH BLAH BLAH WITH NO FLAIR AS IF READING A BOOK, ADD SOME ZING…IT WILL ZING YOUR GRADE UP.

Group Grade, all must participate and have planned within the allotted 15 minute planning for each group. 1 grade for group, make sure all participate. Make sure no one talks or laughs during another presentation or 10 points off for each occurrence.

Have fun, the object is not to make it long…but to make the battle memorable to each table.

OR….

(Teacher choice of assignment)

Chapter 13, Section 1 Reteaching

The American cowboy drew many of his customs from ranchers in ______________.

The demand for _________________ in cities led to the growth of the cattle industry.

About 25% of all cowboys were _______________.

General George Custer and his troops were routed at the _______________.

____________________ was a factor in ending the open range era.

Chapter 13, Section 2

Copy As Notes In Workbook Page: 54

Pages: 420-424

A. Cause and Effect

Causes:

Land grants to the railroads

Effects:

Railroad companies sold frontier land to farmers at low prices; railroad companies recruited Europeans to buy and farm frontier land.

Causes:

The Homestead Act and related laws passed in the 1870’s

Effects:

The Homestead Act offered 160 Acres of land free to anyone who would cultivate it for 5 years; similar acts offered land cheaply or fro free in states such as Kansas and Oklahoma.

Causes:

Inventions and improvements in farm technology

Effects:

Increased farm productivity by decreasing the amount of effort and time required to produce farm goods.

Causes:

The Morrill Land Grant Acts and Hatch Act

Effects:

Supported farmers by financing agriculture education and research in farm technology and methodology

B. What were some of the hardships faced by frontier farmers?

Obtaining enough good land to support a family; bad weather (droughts, floods. blizzards); fires; locust plagues; raid by outlaws; raids by Native Americans; proving food and shelter for themselves; living in dugouts and soddies; needing to be self-sufficient for clothing and medical care; the physical hardships of farm work; financial problems (debt, bankruptcy, fluctuating prices, rising costs of shipping and equipment)

Wednesday, September 14, 2011 Thursday, September 15, 2011

Purple Day – Odd White Day - Even

D.E.A.R. – 15 minutes silent reading

Chapter 13, Section 3 Farmers and the Populist Movement

Pages: 425-429

TASK: Write a letter to a newspaper commenting on the problems of farmers in the 1870’s.

PURPOSE: To identify the problems and responses of farmers in the West and the South.

DIRECTIONS: You will be assigned the role of a farmer, railroad owner, banker, or industrialist and write letters to the newspaper commenting on one of these statements.

1. The railroads are unfair to farmer.

2. The federal government has a responsibility to help farmers.

3. Falling prices are the fault of farmers.

4. The government has no right to regulate the railroads.

My name is ______, I am a local __________. I am writing today in regards to the recent newspaper article titled, “ ________________________”. I agree/disagree with this article. Then…use your book and give me examples of why you agree or disagree.

HOMEWORK – REVIEW SHEET TEST NEXT CLASS

Friday, September 16, 2011 Monday, September 19, 2011

Purple Day – Odd White Day - Even

D.E.A.R. – 15 minutes of reading

Finish presentations / Chapter 13 Test

Tuesday, September 20, 2011 Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Purple Day – Odd White Day - Even

Begin Chapter 14 / Have a cover sheet printed.

Vocabulary for chapter 14

Review Sheet For Chapter 13 Changes on the Western Frontier

Pages: 406-433

Morrill Act Dawes Act Homestead Act

Bimetallism Assimilation William Jennings Bryan

Soddy Battle of Wounded Knee Chisholm Trail

Oliver Hudson Kelley

1. Law that allowed white settlers to take much of the land set aside for Native

Americans

2. Offered 160 acres of land free to any head of household

3. Gave federal land to the states to help finance agricultural colleges

4. Policy that supporters hoped would place more money in the pockets of ordinary people

5. Plan that sought to abolish Native American’s traditional cultures.

6. Started an organization for farmers that came to be known as the Grange

7. Populist candidate who lost the presidential election of 1896

8. Allowed cattle business to flourish by providing a route to a shipping yard in

Abilene, Kansas

9. Slaughter of 300 unarmed Native Americans that marked the end of the Indian

Wars in 1890

10. Provided warmth but not protection from snakes and insects

Chisholm Trail George Custer Battle of Wounded Knee

Sitting Bull Dawes Act Great Plains

Ghost Dance Sand Creek Massacre

William J. Fetterman

11. This leader of the Hunkpapa Sioux never signed the Treaty of 1868. He helped to defeat the U.S. Army at the Little Bighorn, toured in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show for awhile, encouraged the Ghost Dance movement, and was eventually killed during an attempt by reservation police to arrest him.

12. This was supposed to “Americanize” Native Americans by encouraging in them the desire to own property and to farm reservation land distributed to Native American families.

13. This colonel’s bad judgment in attacking Native American warriors at the Little Bighorn River resulted in his death and that of all his troops.

14. This resulted when the U.S. Army fired cannons on 340 starving freezing Sioux; within minutes 300 of them were dead.

15. This resulted when the peaceful Cheyenne and Arapaho were attacked without warning by the U. S. Army over 150 inhabitants were killed, mostly women and children.

16. This ritual was supposed to restore the Native American way of life.

17. This was the major cattle route from San Antonio, Texas, through Oklahoma to

Kansas.

18. This is the vast grassland extending through the west-central portion of the United

States.

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