1.29 The West Then... and Now

Due Today: Group Presentations

This Land Is Your Land- What VALUES regarding LAND are expressed in this song? Is the message relevant today? Why?

Topic 1: Impact on American Indian Communities

Topic 2: The Internal Empire

Topic 3: Agriculture and Environment

Topic 4: Wild, Wild West

Self Reflection on group project :-)

Pre-view of Ch. 19- The Incorporation of America

- 'round the room notes

Senator Barack Obama's Commencement Address at Knox College-

America's Choice to Act (moved to the next class)

1. Obama stated, "the collective American dream moved forward imperfectly." How was this true during the period of conquest in the West?
2. Obama's speech asks graduates "to recognize our failings and then rise together." How do we recognize our failings of both Reconstruction and the Trans-Mississippi West to move forward?
3. Does a mentality of social darwinism persist today? Is it still a world where every person is for themselves?
4. What is your place in history?

HW: Chapter 19 and Notes