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Title: Go West! Author: GVMS Created Date: 5/22/2006 11:55:28 AM Document presentation format: On-screen Show (4:3) Company: Great Valley School District – PowerPoint PPT presentation

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Title: Map Warm-Up


1
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)

2
Go West!
3
Why go out West?
  • Federal Lands open for settling
  • Oklahoma
  • Homestead Act
  • Seek land and fortune

4
How Getting West?
  • The Railroads
  • Transcontinental
  • Foot and Horse Power

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6
Who was going West?
  • Immigrants
  • Urban Dwellers

7
Where Settling?
  • The Western Frontier
  • Oklahoma
  • Colorado
  • Utah
  • Arizona

8
What were settlers doing in the new territory?
  • Farming
  • Ranching
  • Mining

9
What were they Mining?
  • Gold
  • Silver
  • Copper
  • Other Precious Materials

10
What is Ranching?
  • Free Range grazing
  • Use land to feed livestock

11
Tomorrow
  • Impact of Western Expansion on Native Americans
  • Conflicts over expansion
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