Map Warm-Up

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Map Warm-Up

• Grab a map on front table
• Open book to page 533
• Recreate a land use map (setup a key) with these
  3 items West of Mississippi River
• Mining
• Farming
• Ranching
• Put in the dates for all states added between
  1865 1915 (Hint RA 7)

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Go West!
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Why go out West?

• Federal Lands open for settling
• Oklahoma
• Homestead Act
• Seek land and fortune

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How Getting West?

• The Railroads
• Transcontinental
• Foot and Horse Power

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Who was going West?

• Immigrants
• Urban Dwellers

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Where Settling?

• The Western Frontier
• Oklahoma
• Colorado
• Utah
• Arizona

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What were settlers doing in the new territory?

• Farming
• Ranching
• Mining

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What were they Mining?

• Gold
• Silver
• Copper
• Other Precious Materials

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What is Ranching?

• Free Range grazing
• Use land to feed livestock

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Tomorrow

• Impact of Western Expansion on Native Americans
• Conflicts over expansion