2 - American Expansion

Oregon Trail Game: http://www.virtualapple.org/oregontraildisk.html

2-1 American Expansion Overview

The Oregon Trail:

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtid=2&psid=3251

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtid=2&psid=3252

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtid=2&psid=3253

2-2* The Sioux Treaty of 1868: http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/sioux-treaty/

2-3 The Comstock Lode: http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtid=2&psid=3149

2-4* The Homestead Act: http://www.beatricene.com/homestead/history.html

2-5 The Transcontinental Railroad: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/introduction/tcrr-intro/

2-6 The Chivington Massacre: http://www.mycivilwar.com/battles/641129b.html

2-7* The Alaska Purchase: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Purchase

2-8 The Battle of Little Bighorn: http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/custer.htm

2-9 The Apache Wars, Cochise, & Geronimo: http://www.desertusa.com/desert-people/chiricahua-apaches.html

2-10 The End of Reconstruction: http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=2&psid=3108

2-11 Closing the Frontier:

http://www.ushistory.org/us/40.asp

http://www.ushistory.org/us/40a.asp

2-12 The Wounded Knee Massacre: http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/knee.htm

2-13 Important Native Americans

2-14 Sitting Bull: http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/s_z/sittingbull.htm

2-15 Chief Joseph: http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/a_c/chiefjoseph.htm

2-16 The End of Resistance:

http://www.ushistory.org/us/40c.asp

http://www.ushistory.org/us/40d.asp