Bridging+the+Gap

=Bridging the Gap= =US History - Post Civil War= =Essential Question - Why do people move?= =Mining= == = Gold & Silver, Copper were found in the following states/territories = > ====Alaska(Klondike Region)====
 * ====California,Nevada, Colorado, the Dakotas, Montana, Idaho, Arizona, New Mexico====

These discoveries ignited "Gold Fever"
=== "My feet are sore, my heels are blistered, my legs sore and lame, my hands, neck, shoulders, sore and chafed from rope. But boys don't think I am discouraged......there is a golden glimmer in the distance." ===

Explain how mining camps in the western states/territories of the United States grew into towns & cities after the discovery of gold & silver.


=Cattle Industry=

[|Barbed Wire Image]
 * ==Use the map below to describe how cattle made it to market from grazing lands farther south like Texas. Whose job was it to get the cattle North?==
 * ==How did the invention of barbed wire affect life on the prairie for both ranchers & farmers?==
 * ==When the cattle is driven north to places such as Omaha, NE or Sioux City, IA, what type of jobs were created in the cattle industry?==
 * [[file:Cattle Drives to Market - 2 maps.docx]]

American Progress **What is the American Dream?**

Choose one photo and put yourself in their shoes. How were you living the American Dream?


In Their Shoes........Life was........Our goal was.....My role in the family was.....

[|Sod house]

[|Pioneers Doc] Irish & Germans moving into the Great Plains to farm or ranch || [|Buffalo Facts]
 * ===**Migration West- Who is moving West & Why?**=== ||
 * =====**White Settlers** – moving from other states such as Illinois, Indiana Missouri – new opportunities===== || **Farmers** looking for cheap land to farm - Homestead Act 1862 - now 160 acre grant of land available - must be over 21, build permanent housing & farm for 5 yrs
 * Businessmen/women** moving into boom towns - to open businesses
 * Ranchers** who wanted to raise large herds on open prairie & then send to market in cities- (Cowboys work for ranchers) ||
 * **African American Settlers** || Called Exodusters – building new communities in the West- fleeing oppressive Jim Crow Laws & increasing segregation & violence from the KKK ||
 * **European Settlers 1870s** - Immigrants from Northern Europeans || Scandinavians (from Norway, Sweden, Finland
 * **Chinese Settlers** || After building the RR, were staying in the West & turned to farming ||

**Map of the United States 1890** > ==Write 3 facts- 2 comments - 1 question==
 * ==Analyze the map==
 * ==Turn - n - Talk with classmates to find/share findings==

[|Wounded Knee Lakota Sioux - DJ] [|Black Hills - Crazy Horse Monument]

Building the Transcontinental Railway
[| 2 Maps for Analysis -]
 * List resources needed to build a railroad?
 * How did railroads affect the settlement of the West?

Defining Social Darwinism & the Oklahoma Land Rush

 * Apply what you know about Darwin's ideas of evolution in science to society and westward expansion of settlers in American West.[[file:West-Social Darwinism.doc]]

THE RUSH TO OKLAHOMA
William Willard Howard  //Harper's Weekly// 33 (May 18, 1889)

====‘In some respects the recent settlement of Oklahoma was the most remarkable thing of the present century. Unlike Rome, the city of Guthrie was built in a day. To be strictly accurate in the matter, it might be said that it was built in an afternoon. At twelve o'clock on Monday, April 22d, the resident population of Guthrie was nothing; before sundown it was at least ten thousand. In that time streets had been laid out, town lots staked off, and steps taken toward the formation of a municipal government. At twilight the camp-fires of ten thousand people gleamed on the grassy slopes of the Cimarron Valley, where, the night before, the coyote, the gray wolf, and the deer had roamed undisturbed. Never before in the history of the West has so large a number of people been concentrated in one place in so short a time. To the conservative Eastern man, who is wont to see cities grow by decades, the settlement of Guthrie was magical beyond belief; to the quick-acting resident of the West, it was merely a particularly lively town-site speculation.’==== media type="custom" key="20809714"

[|Oklahoma Land Rush]

[|Boomer Sooner Mascots]

Building the Transcontinental Railway
[|cattle cars] [|Grain RR cars near grain elevator] [|filling the grain car] [|grain elevator on RR]
 * List resources needed to build a railroad?
 * What is the Bessemer Process? p. 460
 * How did the Bessemer Process & the advance of the railroad affect the settlement of the West?

Chicago 1880 = Transformation of Chicago Writing Assignment = [|Map & Timetable of Destruction] [|Video - Great Chicago Fire -] =The Transformation of Chicago- How did the Railroad Transform the city of Chicago after the Great Fire in 1871? How did Chicago become a center of industry in 1880-1900? Use your text pp. 464-465 to examine the changes. Then in a 4-5 paragraph essay, you will discuss how the railroad helped the city to rebuild & transform into a modern city.= [|Pictogram 464-465]

[|TRANSITION WORDS] [|Additional source: Chicago after the Fire]