USHAPUnit 6 Week 2

Monday 12/10/12• Objective: Understand the dynamics of trans-Mississippi

settlement in the post-Civil War period

• Content: Settlement of the West• Skills: Cause and effect, change over time

• Essential question: Can corporatization and democracy coexist?

• Agenda:• 1) Fluency Fact Review Quiz (another one on Friday)• 2) Impact on Native Americans of the buffalo slaughter? • 3) Why did so few settlers strike it rich? • 4) Why were railroads the first big businesses?

Review Quiz Synthesizer Frames• Show Commonality:

• ___________ , _____________ , and _____________ all demonstrate ____________ in the ____________ period.

• Show Contrast:

• Although ______________ in the case of ____________, for the most part ______________ as seen in the ______________ and the _____________.

• Show Analysis:

• ______________, ________________, and ______________ all resulted from _______________ in the ____________________ period.

Impact of the buffalo slaughter on Native Americans?

Why did so few settlers strike it rich?

Why were railroads the first big business?

Tuesday 12/11/12• Objective: Understand the dynamics of trans-Mississippi

settlement in the post-Civil War period• Content: Settlement of the West• Skills: Cause and effect, change over time

• Essential question: Can corporatization and democracy coexist?

• Agenda:• Internal Empire BTSGs • The Western mythos: Exceptionalist historiography?• Life of a cowboy? • Life on the Great Plains?

Internal Empire BTSGs • You will be assigned one of the following groups to create

a BTSG: • Mining Towns• Mormon Settlements• Mexican Borderland Communities

• For the group address the following:• Social Makeup• Economic Structure• Motivations for Settlement

The Legendary Wild West???• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrqlP6hzofE• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RrjRaFeaB0

Block Day 12/12/12 & 12/13• Objective: Understand the dynamics of trans-Mississippi

settlement in the post-Civil War period• Content: Settlement of the West• Skills: Cause and effect, change over time

• Essential question: Can corporatization and democracy coexist?

Agenda:• Finish Internal Empire BTSGs• Causes and effects of the “toll on the land”?• Essay outline prep time

Internal Empire BTSGs • Continue working on your assigned BTSG topic:

• Mining Towns• Mormon Settlements• Mexican Borderland Communities

• For the group address the following:• Social Makeup• Economic Structure• Motivations for Settlement

Causes of the “toll on the land”New Technologies (pgs 625-627)

Global Market(pg 627)

California Agribusiness(pgs 627-628)

Effects of the “toll on the land”• Thesis Statement

• Evaluate the effect of the technological advances in mining and agriculture on the American landscape in the 19th century.

• Assess the effectiveness of the various Congressional Acts that were passed in response to the farming and mining practices of the late 19th century.

Essay Outline Prep Time• Prompt will be about the material in Chpts. 13-17

• Reform• Expansion• Crisis• Civil War• Reconstruction

• Prompt will be chosen from the USHAP Essay Packet• Monday 12/17/12