Gilded Age West Lesson 1: Motivations

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Gilded Age Westward Expansion

Lesson 1: Motivations and Native American Experience

SS.912.A.3.1 : Analyze the economic challenges to American farmers and farmers’ responses to these challenges in the mid to late 1800s.

SS.912.A.2.7: Review the Native American experience.

Multiple Choice

Mining towns that had rapid growth from hundreds to thousands were known as

Funtowns

ghosttowns

boomtowns

gloomtowns

Multiple Choice

Public land that could be used by anyone, usually for grazing cattle is called....

open range

open land

open plains

open house

Multiple Choice

Which of the following contributed MOST to the end of the open range?

Steel Fencing

Native American warfare

Barbed wire

Razor Fencing

Multiple Choice

What was the overall purpose of the Homestead Act?

Encourage people to migrate westward

To spread people out more

To keep people in the same place

To make everyone leave

Multiple Choice

The vocabulary term associated with African American who moved west.

relocation

reservations

assimilation

exodusters

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is an example of Nativism?

The Open Door Note

The Chinese Exclusion Act

The Dawes Act

The Pacific Railway Act

Multiple Choice

Based on slides 23-28, is the following statement True or False?

The United States government often used military force when Native Americans resisted.

Ture

False

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Exit Ticket: Answer BOTH questions using 3-4 complete sentences for each.

1) Explain at least two factors that motivated westward expansion after the Civil War.

2) Explain two negative effects westward expansion had on Native Americans.

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Gilded Age Westward Expansion

Lesson 1: Motivations and Native American Experience

SS.912.A.3.1 : Analyze the economic challenges to American farmers and farmers’ responses to these challenges in the mid to late 1800s.

SS.912.A.2.7: Review the Native American experience.

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