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get it done and over with!

Warm up

1. Please copy your homework into your planner and leave out to be signed

2. Obtain a History Alive book (remember you may have to share) and your journal.

3. Look at the pictures on page 324 and answer the following questions in your journal:

1. What do you see?2. Who do you think painted this image?3. Who is fighting?4. Who are they fighting?5. Who do you believe is winning?

New Interest in the West

• Homestead Act- offered farmers 160 acres of public land in the West for free– Requirement was to clear the land and farm it for

5 years– After the 5 years they were given ownership of

the land

New Interest in the West con.

• Pacific Railroad Act – building of a transcontinental railroad linking the Atlantic with the Pacific– Project given to Union Pacific and Central Pacific

railroad companies– Pay• Were given sections of free land which they later sold• Loaned the companies more than $60 million

Groups that shaped the South Groups Groups

InvolvedWhy they

moved WestProblems Role in

Western Development

Railroad Builders

Miners

Ranchers and Cowboys

Homesteaders

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Warm up

1. Please copy your homework into your planner, and leave it out to be signed.

2. Obtain a History Alive book and your journal.3. Complete the Geography Challenge on page

336.

Groups that shaped the South Groups Groups

InvolvedWhy they

moved WestProblems Role in

Western Development

Railroad Builders

•Irish immigrants•Ex-soldiers•Mexicans•African Americans •Chinese

•Jobs•Adventure•Hope of starting a new life

•Tough tent cities•Indian attacks•Accidents

•Brought new settlers to the west•Encouraged building of towns and cities•Allowed mail and supplies to be shipped across the country

Groups that shaped the South Groups Groups

InvolvedWhy they

moved WestProblems Role in

Western Development

Miners •Fortune hunters

•To find gold or silver

•No government•No law•Little order

•Damaged the land•Displaced Native Americans•Created cities•Opened up the West’s mountains and deserts to other settlers such as businesspeople, farmers, and ranchers

Groups that shaped the South Groups Groups

InvolvedWhy they

moved WestProblems Role in

Western Development

Ranchers and Cowboys

•Texans•Mexican Americans•African Americans

•For profits from cattle sales

•Long hours working•Stampeding herds of cattle•Dangerous cow towns•Freezing weather

•Opened the plains to settlements •Created the cattle industry

Groups that shaped the South Groups Groups

InvolvedWhy they

moved WestProblems Role in

Western Development

Homesteaders •Eastern farm families•Former slaves•European immigrants

•Land •Religious freedom

•Unpredictable rain•Locusts•Little wood for homes

•Made the Great Plains the most productive wheat-growing region in the world

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Warm up

1. Copy homework into planner and leave out to be signed.

2. Obtain a blue textbook and your journal.3. Look at the chart on page 391 and answer the

following:1. About how many immigrants arrived in the

United States in the 1860’s?2. In the 1880’s?3. In the first decade of the twentieth century?

Life in the Country and the City

Scrapbook• 1. A cover that includes a title and is visually appealing• 2. An introductory page that provides background information including

– A fictitious name, date of birth, and native country– A description of the family– An explanation of the events or circumstances that prompted him or her to

immigrant• 3. A two page spread about the journey to the United States that includes at least

one written document, such as a letter from a family member living in the United States or an entry from the immigrants personal journal– At least two artifacts the immigrant used on the journey to the United States,

such as a passport, a ticket for the trip to the United States, or coins from the home country. Each artifact must have a short caption that explains what the item is and how it was used.

– At least two visuals, such as a simple sketch or a historical photograph, that show something that happened on the journey to the United States. Each visual must have a short caption

Scrapbook pt. 2• A two page spread about the immigrant’s experiences upon arrival

in the United States that includes– At least one written document, such as a letter the immigrant

wrote to family or friends in the home country or an entry from a personal journal

– At least two artifacts that the immigrant used upon arrival in the United States such as a paycheck or a page from an English dictionary. Each artifact must have a short caption that identifies what the item is and explains how it was used.

– At least two visuals, such as a simple sketch or a historical photograph, that represent the immigrant’s new life in the United States. Each visual must have a short caption

– Creative touches that make your scrapbook look authentic.

Journal Entry

Write a 1 paragraph journal entry with a picture describing life in a tenement home.

• Write from the point of view of a young immigrant

• Write a paragraph• Include a drawing

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Warm Up pg. 370 HA

• What details do you see in this cartoon?• What is happening?• What problem(s) in American society is the

cartoonist highlighting? • Who do you think should draw attention to

society’s problems and propose solutions? Explain

Progressive Era Stations

• 5 Groups• Five Stations• Worksheets at each station

Definitions

Herbert Hoover Buying on MarginBlack Tuesday Crash of 1929Great Depression HoovervilleO. Max Gardner Live at Home ProgramFranklin Roosevelt New DealFireside Chat Hundred DaysSocial Security Act Josiah W. BaileyJohn C.B. Ehringhaus Clyde R. Hoey

DefinitionsTotalitarianism IsolationismBenito Mussolini FascismAdolf Hitler anti-SemitismAppeasement Non-Aggression PactBlitzkrieg Lend-Lease ActD-Day HolocaustGenocide Nuremberg TrialsDouglas MacArthur Bataan Death MarchBattle of Midway Manhattan ProjectHiroshima Concentration Camps

Timeline EventsBenito Mussolini becomes prime minister of ItalyStalin becomes head of the Communist PartyJapanese Army attacks ManchuriaAdolf Hitler becomes leader of GermanyHitler and Mussolini sign Rome-Berlin AxisJapan launches all out war against ChinaPolicy of AppeasementHitler and Stalin sign the Non-Aggression PactGermans bomb BritainJapan joins the Axis PowersJapan attacks the United States

Timeline of Events pt. 2 in EuropeHitler and Mussolini declare war on the U.S.German Army invades RussiaBattle of StalingradAllied troops land in MorroccoBattle of KurskAllied forces invade ItalyD-DayBattle of the BulgeFDR dies, Harry Truman succeeds himHitler commits suicideSoviet Army captures Berlin

Timeline of Events pt. 3James Dolittle led a daring air raid against Japanese

citiesBattle of MidwayBattle of Leyte GulfBattle of Iwo JimaU.S. drops atomic bomb on HiroshimaU.S. drops atomic bomb on NagasakiJapan signs a formal document of surrender