Aim: How
were Native Americans affected by Westward Expansion?
Bell Ringer: Handout 2.1 (Chapter 2,
Lesson 1)
Objectives:
1.Students will analyze the economic
challenges to American farmers and farmers’ responses to the challenges in the
mid to late 1800s.
Agenda:
1.Bell Ringer (20 min)
2.Journal 20 – Choose one
of the following questions: (10 min)
a. What factors helped to encourage settlement of the Great
Plains?
b. What factors caused conflicts between new settlers to the
West and Native Americans?
c. What were the consequences of the Dawes Act?
3.Discussion: P. 88
'Extended-Response Question’: If you were a settler moving to a new community
in the Great Plains, would you stay and make a new life for yourself or would
you leave? Write a descriptive essay that supports the reasons for your
decision. Use vocabulary words: Vigilance
committee, hydraulic mining, Battle of the Little Bighorn, Homestead Act of
1862, Transcontinental Railroad, Mining booms, assimilate, relocate. (10 min)
Students are to write their decision and then discuss. Grade will be based on
their excerpt and discussion participation.
4.Exit Ticket: Use question
#3 with vocabulary words highlighted or underlined. Exit Ticket will count as a
quiz grade.
5.Submit 'Westward
Expansion Timeline'
Home
Learning: Complete Journals 1-20 / EOC packet pages 4-6 will be graded.
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