Suggested Titles
Technology and the Making of the West
The Effects of Industrialism on Farming and Ranching in the West
US Government Seizes Railroads
Railroads: The First Big Business
The Revolution Begins: Steam Engines, Railroads, Steam Boats
Winning the West: Indian Wars after 1840
Westward Expansion and Indian Culture
Anti-Chinese Political Cartoon
Chinese Transcontinental Railroad Workers
12.2 Miners & Ranchers
• Analyzes the impact of inflation or deflation on the value of money and people’s purchasing power (e.g., cattle towns, mining towns)
12.3 Railroads Open The West
• Explain the impact of the railroad on the settlement and development of the West
12.4 Indian Wars Shatter Tribal Cultures
• Describe the reasons for tension between the American Indians and the US government over land in Kansas.
• Explain the American Indians’ reactions to encroachment on their lands (e.g., Chief Joseph, Helen Hunt Jackson, Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, Geronimo, Sand Creek,, Little Big Horn, and Wounded Knee)
12.5 Settling the Great Plains
• Use primary source documents to determine the challenges faced by settlers and their means of adaptations
12.6 Farmers Rise Up in Protest
• Examine how human beings removed barriers to settlement by moving needed resources across the US
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