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Moving to the Wild West!

Warm-Up 1/25• Come in, sit down QUIETLY and set-up!• Use p. 372 in the RED BOOK to answer

these questions:

1) The first settlers to cross the Appalachian Mountains in search of fertile land were called ________.

2) Who lived on these lands before the settlers?

3) Review: Who was the son of a freed slave and helped survey Washington D.C.?

Write the questions AND answers!

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1) The first settlers to cross the Appalachian Mountains in search of fertile land were called ________.

- pioneers

2) Who lived on these lands before the settlers?

- Native Americans

3) Review: Who was the son of a freed slave and helped survey Washington D.C.?

- Benjamin Banneker

Moving to the Wild West

Objective: identify reasons why American settlers moved West of the Appalachian Mountains

Key Questions

1. What is “westward movement”?2. What is “Manifest Destiny"?

What is “Westward Movement”?

• Westward movement was when American settlers began to move and live WEST of the Appalachian Mountains in the 1800s

What is “Manifest Destiny”?

• Manifest Destiny was the belief that the United States should expand WEST to the Pacific Ocean

Warm-Up 1/26• Come in, sit down QUIETLY and set-up!• Use p. 372 in the RED BOOK to answer

these questions:

1) ) The pioneers kept pushing the edge of their settlements further and further _________!

2) Was life easy or hard on the western frontier? Why?


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1) ) The pioneers kept pushing the edge of their settlements further and further _________!

- West

2) Was life easy or hard on the western frontier? Why?

- Life was hard for pioneers on the frontier because everything had to be done by hand, from cutting down trees to building homes, and pioneers were often lonely.

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Warm-Up 1/27• Come in, sit down QUIETLY and set-up!• Use YOUR NOTEBOOK to answer these

questions:

1) What does pioneer mean? Draw a picture of a pioneer.

2) Pioneers moved and lived WEST of the _____________ Mountains.

3) Pretend you are a pioneer in the 1800s, Sally Sue or Peter Duncan. Write how you feel about leaving home and moving West. Do you feel sad, excited, nervous? Are you going West to find a job, or gold, or new land to farm??


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1) What does pioneer mean? Draw a picture of a pioneer.

- Pioneers are the 1st Americans to move WEST2) Pioneers moved and lived WEST of the Appalachian Mountains.3) Pretend you are a pioneer in the 1800s, Sally Sue or Peter Duncan.

- Dear Diary, today is Wednesday, January 27, 1832. Ma is not excited about moving West because of the storms and sickness on the way, but I am on Pa’s side! I can’t wait to see the huge buffalo and some cowboys. Besides, Pa said there is lots of gold and a new life out West!

Moving to the Wild West

Objective: identify reasons why American settlers moved West of the Appalachian Mountains

Key Questions

1. Why did Americans want to move West?

2. What was good about the West? 3. What was bad about the West?

The Good The Bad

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5. 5.

WHY Move west?

The Good The Bad

1. Lots of free or cheap land to farm or ranch

1. Danger

2. Gold 2. Sickness and disease

3. Religious freedom 3. Storms

4. Economic opportunity, jobsManifest Destiny

4. Fights with Native Americans

5. Adventure 5. Far from cities and services

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WHY Move west?

• Your task is to make a billboard advertisement to convince people to move west

• If you want to convince people to move west, you will want to focus on the…

The Good The Bad

1. Lots of free or cheap land to farm or ranch

1. Danger

2. Gold 2. Sickness and disease

3. Religious freedom 3. Storms

4. Economic opportunity, jobsManifest Destiny

4. Fights with Native Americans

5. Adventure 5. Far from cities and services

WHY Move west?

Warm-Up 1/28• Come in, sit down QUIETLY and set-up!• Use p. 373 in the RED BOOK to answer:

1) What did pioneers use waterways, like the Mississippi River, for?

2) What was the Louisiana Purchase?

3) Review: What is Manifest Destiny?


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1) What did pioneers use waterways, like the Mississippi River, for?

- For trade routes

2) What was the Louisiana Purchase?

- Land that the United States bought from France in 1803

3) Review: What is Manifest Destiny?

- The belief that America should be from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean

Louisiana purchase

Objective: understand how the United States grew to the West

Key Questions

1. What was the Louisiana Purchase?2. Why was the Louisiana Territory

important?

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1. What?

- It was land that the United States bought from France for $12 million

2. When?

-1803 (or 207 years ago!)

3. Who?

- The 3rd President, Thomas Jefferson, bought the land

4. Where?

- In between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains

5. Why?

- To have control over trade in the Mississippi River

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