Class: APUSH Week:1/15
Period: 6 (1865-1898)General Topics:
Societies of the West
Economy of the West
Romancing the West
Conflict in the West
Western Farmers
Days Allotted: 2 / Learning Objectives:
1. Examine various ethnic and racial groups that populated the American West, and analyze how cultural characteristics of these groups reflected the West.
2. Examine the arrival and settlement of substantial numbers of Anglo-American and how they transformed the society and economy of the West.
3. Examine the role the federal government played in shaping the development of the West.
Key Concept: 6.1, 6.2
· Technological advances, large-scale production methods, and the opening of new markets encouraged the rise of industrial capitalism in the United States.
· The migrations that accompanied industrialization transformed both urban and rural areas of the United States and caused dramatic social and cultural change / Specifics from the Concept Outline that may be tested:
I. Societies of the Far West
a. The Western Tribes
b. Hispanic New Mexico
c. Hispanic California and Texas
d. The Chinese Migration
e. Anti-Chinese Sentiments
f. Migration from the West
II. The Changing Western Economy
a. Labor in the West
b. Arrival of the Miners
c. The Cattle Kingdom
III. The Romance of the West
a. The Western Landscape
b. The Cowboy Culture
c. The Idea of the Frontier
d. Fredrick Jackson Turner
e. The Loss of Utopia
IV. The Dispersal of the Tribes
a. White Tribal Policies
b. The Indian Wars
c. The Dawes Act
V. The Rise and Decline of the Western Farmer
a. Farming on the Plains
b. Commercial Agriculture
c. The Farmers’ Grievances
d. The Agrarian Malaise
Vocabulary students may be unfamiliar with:
Malaise, subsidies, ethnic v. racial, myth and reality / Illustrative Examples to support the concepts:
6.1 Reapers, combines, bonanza farming, dry farming, barbed wire
6.2 Chinatowns, Pacific Railway Acts, federal and state government subsidies to transcontinental railroads, cattle trails, cow towns, Tombstone, Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West show, Fredric Remington’s paintings, “dime novels”, “range wars”, Sand Creek Massacre, Battle of Little Big Horn, Battle of Bear Paw Mountain, Battle of Wounded Knee, Chief Joseph, Geronimo, Great Sioux Reservation, Carlisle Indian Reservation, Dawes Act, Ghost Dance Movement.
Assessment(s):
Vocabulary HW page 470
Individual DBQ
1992 take home assignment DUE Jan 22
Questions:
1. Page 453 mining towns Due Jan 16 and 17
2. Page 454 the cattle kingdom Due Jan 16 and 17
3. Page 463 the Indian Frontier
Due Jan 18 and 19
Debating the Past-pages 458 and 459 (3 questions)
Due Jan 18 and 19 / Reading and vocabulary schedule:
Pages 444-454
Vocabulary – Californios, Chinese Exclusion Act, Chisolm Trail, Coolies, Genizaros, Homestead Act, Long Drive, Mestizos, Plains Indians
DUE Jan 15 and 16
Pages 455-470
Vocabulary – Chief Joseph, Concentration Policy, Dawes Severalty Act, Fredrick Jackson Turner, Fredric Remington, George Custer, Geronimo, Little Bighorn, Mark Twain, Rocky Mountain School, Turner Thesis, Wounded Knee
DUE Jan 18 and 19
Notes from discussion or questions for class from your reading assignments: