Settlement of the West

Essential Questions

• What were the various motivations of different groups of settlers in the west?
• How did new inventions and innovations impact the economy of the west?
  
• How did settlers respond to and transform the environment of the west?

PowerPoint: Settlers of the Wild West

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Notes: Settlers of the Wild West

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Chart: Who Journeyed West?

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Map: Admission of States to the union

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Frederick Jackson Turner: The Frontier Thesis

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Tall Tales & Folk Heroes

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MAtching Tiles: The West

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Memory Game: Innovations of the Great West

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DBQ 1992: Settlement of the West

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Link: ARchives of the West, 1848-1856

http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/resources/archives/three/