Analyze - the impact of mining and railroads on the settlement of the West.
Explain - the impact of physical and human geographic factors on the settlement of the Great Plains.
Analyze - treatment of Chinese immigrants and Mexican Americans in the West.
Discuss the ways various groups used land in the West and conflicts among them.
Geography and the Move West
Getting Settled on the Homestead
Barbed Wire
Transcontinental Railroad
From Boomtown to Ghost Town
Mining
The Chisholm Trail
The Homestead Act
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3.2 Assessment
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3.2 Quiz