Utah's Changing Boundaries

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Utah's Changing Boundaries

• Chapter 11 The Struggle for Statehood

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Bell Activity
This is still a no gum class. Please dispose of
it properly!

• Pick up the two papers from the front table.
• Take out your study guide and work on questions
  1-20.
• Where should your backpack be?

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Today we will learn

• History Objective We will be able to examine
  the boundary changes Utah underwent to become the
  state it is today, and why those changes occurred.

• Language Objective We will carefully create the
  map, using several different sources.
• Behavior Objective Work Ethic Stay on task to
  finish the activity on time.

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Deseret to Utah

• Utah changed a great deal from the time the
  Mormons arrived in Utah to becoming a state.
• Why did the boundaries change so much?
• We will use several maps to answer this question.

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Deseret to Utah

• Follow the instructions for steps A-C.
• Use small, neat handwriting for all of your
  labels. It will make the rest of the map easier.

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Finish steps A-C
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Mineral Wealth of the West

• The discovery of gold and silver in the Sierra
  Nevada, the Colorado Rockies, and other places in
  the west also affected Utahs boarders.

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Deseret to Utah

• Carefully mark the changes in boundaries from
  Deseret to the Utah Territory, then from the
  Territory to the State of Utah.
• Use the map to answer the