Period 6--1865-1898

Vocabulary Under Attachments

Part I--Rise of the West

Case Studies in Moving West: You will be assigned one of these case studies you need to answer the questions and then create a letter back home to one of your relatives that were left back east. You need to include the specific information that you found. Submit your letter through Schoology.

Movement West

Farmers and Populism

Sod House Simulation: See if you can build the House without it collapsing

Native American Questions: Answer these questions on Native Americans in the Great Plains. Submit your answers via schoology. Use pages 398-404 in the blue textbook.

Native American PhotoStory: Your job for the portfolio is to create a video describing the conditions and situation faced by native Americans living in the west. You must use the terms in the vocab list and the photographs listed below in the video. Use the Storyboard file below to help you plan. You may make a documentary style video or a 1st person account. You may check out headsets to help you. There is a video tutorial on PhotoStory Below. PhotoStory is a free program that you can download. Use the useful link session.

Native American Vocabulary Native American Images (Zip File)

Movement West Information

Closing the Frontier