Westward+Development

The Essential Questions:

 * Why do people migrate?
 * What was the relationship between human migration and the physical environment of the American West?
 * What responsibilities do people with power have to those people with less power?
 * Did Western development move America closer or further away from the nation it set out to be?
 * How did cooperation and conflict between different cultures shape the West


 * Homework/Classroom Activities**

Government Report Card Advanced
So You Wanna Be A Cowboy Home in the Range Lyrics Home on the Range Rubric

[|Election of 1896]
Section 1: Clash on the Prarie** [|****Vocabulary Practice Activity****] [|Vocabulary Practice Activity]**
 * Chapter 5 Vocabulary Activity
 * Section 2: Settling on the Great Plains**
 * [|Vocabulary Practice Activity]**
 * Section 3 Farmers and the Populist Movement
 * Chapter 5: Changes on the Western Frontier**
 * [|Vocabulary Practice Activity]**

The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History - Westward Expansion http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/module8/index.html The American West http://www.americanwest.com/ The Multicultural American West Web Resources http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~amerstu/mw/ The Library of Congress – History of the American West http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/codhtml/hawphome.html PBS – New Perspectives on The West http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/ Treasure Net Historical Image Collection http://www.treasurenet.com/cgi-bin/treasure/images.pl/Search?search=%2bCategory%3a%22American%20West%22 Kansas University – The American West Resource Collection http://www.ku.edu/~kansite/WEST/ History of the American West Online Resources http://www.academicinfo.net/amwest.html Ghost Towns http://www.ghosttowns.com/ PBS – Frontier House http://www.pbs.org/wnet/frontierhouse/ Native American Conflicts and Wars http://nativeamericanrhymes.com/library/conflicts/overview.htm Battle of Little Bighorn http://www.ibiscom.com/custer.htm Buffalo Hunting http://www.ibiscom.com/buffalo.htm Stage Coaches http://www.ibiscom.com/stage.htm Crossing the Great Plains http://www.ibiscom.com/stage.htm The Apache Battles http://www.ibiscom.com/apache.htm The Death of Billy the Kid http://www.ibiscom.com/billythekid.htm A Cowboy in Dodge City http://www.ibiscom.com/dodge.htm Massacre at Wounded Knee http://www.ibiscom.com/knee.htm Documents on the Sand Creek Massacre http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/resources/archives/four/sandcrk.htm The Goodnight-Loving Trail http://www.net.westhost.com/loving.shtml Cowboy Hall of Fame http://www.cowboyhalloffame.org/ Mining History http://montanakids.com/db_engine/presentations/presentation.asp?pid=355&sub=Enter Central Pacific Railroad http://cprr.org/ Transcontinental Railroad http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist1/rail.html PBS – The Iron Road http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/iron/ Cowboys http://www.state.sd.us/deca/DDN4Learning/ThemeUnits/Cowboys/history.htm Gold Rush Boom Towns http://www.lib.washington.edu/specialcoll/klondike/case5.html PBS – The Gold Rush http://www.pbs.org/goldrush/ Logging Frontier http://www.sos.state.mi.us/history/museum/explore/museums/hismus/prehist/lumber/logging.html The Northern Great Plains http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/ndfahtml/ngphome.html Dime Novels http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/dp/pennies/home.html The Rise and Fall of //The Wonderful Wizard of Oz// as a "Parable on Populism" http://www.halcyon.com/piglet/Populism.htm Kansas University History of Populism http://www.ku.edu/history/VL/USA/populism.html Historiography of American Populism http://history.smsu.edu/wrmiller/Populism/texts/historiography.htm Populism in Cartoon http://history.smsu.edu/wrmiller/Populism/texts/Introduction.htm Inflation Calculator http://www.westegg.com/inflation/ CPI (Consumer Price Index) - Inflation Information http://www.bls.gov/cpi/home.htm U.S. Department of Labor http://www.bls.gov/home.htm
 * Useful Web Links