Unit+1

1. Post-Civil War America

• Explain the federal policy on Native Americans during the last decades of the nineteenth century. Explain why the policy of removal gave way to the policy of allotment, and how these policies affected Native American life and cu ltures. Define the ways in which Native Americans resisted U.S. federal policy and how the government quashed these acts of resistance. • Determine how the late-nineteenth-century frenzy for gold and silver out west transformed both the region and mining. Explain how the development of the mining industry, the settlements of towns, and the running of territorial governments mimicked the processes of industrialization, urbanization, and political developments back east. • Identify who migrated west, and why they were compelled to move there. Identify who were the homesteaders, speculators, ranchers, cowboys, tenants, and sharecroppers. Outline the ways in which farming became increasingly commercialized and ranching became increasingly industrialized. Start in your textbook at Chapter 17, “The Contested West, 1865-1900,” pp. 489-518.” Watch video “Geronimo” from series “We Shall Remain” OR video “Annie Oakley” from PBS “American Experience.”

Video Clip Screening and Analysis – Team 1

History Workshop – Horace Greeley: “Go West,” 1871

Journal – **Evaluate the turner thesis based upon the readings, films and documents of Chapter 17. Post this to your blog.**