Western Frontier/Industrial East

United States History
Western Frontier/Industrial East
Unit Enduring Understandings:
Settlement of the Western Frontier offered many new economic opportunities and challenges, but also caused tragedy and ruin for many Native American cultures.

For America there would be winners and losers, which would include the many “New Immigrants” as the nation became more industrialized during the late 19th century.

Development of new technologies transforms all aspects of society.

Be sure to read all assignments carefully. Write your position paper giving your opinion based on the facts of the reading, in ink. This paper must be passed in on the day of discussion or receive half credit only. Late excused papers will be passed in the day you return to class.

  1. Western Frontier Visuals: Scoring Guide
  • Great Plains Indians
  • Cattle Ranchers and Miners
  • Frontier Farmers and Populists
                                                                  The Americans p. 406-429
                                                                  Video: Great Native American Leaders
                                                                  Practice Quiz
                                                                 
  1. Video: Ken Burn’s The West Episode 5 with Focus Questions
Video: Great Indians; Leaders and Nations
Videoclip: Dances with Wolves

  1. Populist Party Platform
     4.  “The Industrial Revolution de-humanized man and made him into nothing more than an
           an extension of the machines he worked on.”    Rubric

           Danzer, Gerald A. The Americans, McDougal-Littell, 2008. p. 435-455.
           Denison, TS. "The Evils of the Factory System" Instructional Fair.
           "Homestead Steel Strike" The Men Who Built America (Video).                                                                         history,com A+E Networks Consumer Products, 2012.
                     
                                             History of the Republic p. 384-391
                                             Eyewitnesses & Others “The Sweatshops of Chicago”
                                             Men Who Built America: Rockefeller, Thomas Edison

     5. Guided Reading: Immigration and Urbanization
                                                                      The Americans p. 460-472
                                                                      Visual Analysis (Classroom)

6.  Power Point: Immigration Policy "Human Face of Immigration
    PowerPoint: Immigration                Teaching Tolerance

7. Voices of History (Bill of Rights Institute)
                                  Family History Survey
                                  Background Essay: A Nation of Immigrants
                                  Graphic Organizer
                                  Letter of Mary Garvey, Irish Immigrant, to her Mother (1850)

8. Close Up Controversial Issues in the News: DACA

9.  Progressives Reform Charts
                                                                         The Americans p. 510-543

10. Group Analysis: Progressive Reformers and Muckrakers (Jane Addams, Ida Tarbell, Jacob Riis)

11. Video: Crash Course: Progressives

12. The Origins of Lynching Culture in the United States

Image result for populist party platform of 1892

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