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The Settlement of the American West InteractiveThe Settlement of the American West Interactive
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6th - 8th
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Social Studies & History
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1 hr 30 mins
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The Settlement of the American West

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This The Settlement of the American West interactive also includes:
  • Student Activity
  • Abraham Lincoln, President, U.S
  • Pacific Railroad Act
  • Homestead Act
  • Directors of the Union Pacific Railroad
  • Family with Their Covered Wagon During the Great Western Migration
  • First Report of the Battle of the Little Bighorn
  • Fort Laramie Treaty
  • Homestead Certificate for Daniel Freeman
  • Joining the Tracks for the First Transcontinental Railroad
  • Map of Nebraska and Kansas Territories
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What do Abraham Lincoln and the Transcontinental Railroad have in common? Using a set of primary source documents, including pictures, maps, and treaties, class members link together the common themes of expansion into the American West. The activity includes a step-by-step scaffolding approach to unpacking the main ideas of small sets of documents.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

westward expansion, native americans, abraham lincoln, the kansas-nebraska act, railroads, primary source analysis, primary source images, primary sources

Additional Tags

social studies

Instructional Ideas

  • Use the document set to review key themes of a unit on the American West
  • Offer the activity to stimulate interest before starting a unit on the American West

Classroom Considerations

  • Activity requires that each learner have access to a computer and Internet

Pros

  • Scaffolded approach builds primary source skills
  • Images are stimulating and intriguing

Cons

  • None

Common Core

RH.6-8.1 RH.6-8.2 RH.6-8.3 RH.6-8.10

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