• Vocabulary • Brown’s Political Importance • An Immigrant Town • The Land Office• Business on the Frontier

Land Office and Politics

Teamsters: a person who drove a team of draft animals, usually a wagon drawn by oxen, horses, or mules

Blacksmiths: a metal smith who creates objects from wrought iron or steel by shaping the metal by using tools to hammer, bend, and cut

Territory: a piece of land belonging to someoneReservation: an area of land managed by a Native American

tribe under the United StatesSettlers: a  person who has migrated to an area and

established permanent residence there, often to take over the area

Pioneer: a person who is among the first to explore a new country or area.

Frontier: a region just beyond or at the edge of a settled area.

Vocabulary

Brown’s Political Importance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxfhMLBkaBg

1783-1800; expansion and growth in the US.

An Immigrant Town

The Land Office

Business on the Frontier

Using popsicle sticks, pretzels, or sticks from your back yard, construct your own log cabin.

Stick Cabin Video

Build your own Cabin

Create your own story!

http://www.team570.org/?zone=/unionactive/view_page.cfm&page=About20the20Teamsters

http://www.victorianweb.org/history/work/blacksmith.html http://www.christiansburginstitute.org/btw/educating.html http://ncpedia.org/country-stores http://

www.redbubble.com/people/juliewhite810/works/8022353-general-storekeeper

http://www.mngeo.state.mn.us/chouse/GLO/ http://uslandoffice.net/ http://www.publicland.org/35_archives/photos/0001-9000/1291.jpg http://

americanrealismandimmigration.wikispaces.com/Period+2+German http://mirrorofhistory.areavoices.com/tag/joseph-r-brown/

Bibliography