Settling the West and Frontier Wars PowerPoint and Guided Notes

Description

Need a lesson that covers settling the West and the Frontier Wars? This ready to go PowerPoint begins with the 1862 Homestead and Pacific Railway Acts and goes through 1924 Indian Citizenship Act. The 126 slides presentation covers settling the west including railroads, mining, homesteading, ranching and farming and more. It also covers how settling the West led to the Frontier Wars including the Long Walk of the Navajo, Red Cloud’s War, Red River War, and the 2nd Lakota War. Students will stay on task and engaged with 12 pages of fill in the blank notes.

This resource covers:
Railroads & the West (Pacific Railway Act, transcontinental railroads, land grants, railroad town)
Mining & the West (Pike’s Peak, Comstock Lode, Boom & Ghost Towns, impact on Native Americans, Sand Creek Massacre)
Ranching & the West (open range, cattle drives, Chisolm Trail, cowboys, range & sheep wars)
Farming & the West (Homestead Act, hardships)
New States
War with Navajo (Battle of Canyon de Chelly, Long Walk of the Navajo, Bosque Redondo)
Red Cloud’s War (Bozeman Trail, Battle of 100 Slain)
Medicine Lodge Treaties
1868 Fort Laramie Treaty
Red River War (decimation of buffalo)
2nd Lakota War (Black Hills, Battle of Little Big Horn, Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse)
Geronimo and Apache Resistance
Nez Perce War (Chief Joseph)
Buffalo Soldiers
Reservations
Ghost Dance Movement
Massacre at Wounded Knee
Dawes Severalty Act
1924 Indian Citizenship Act

What’s included in the download:
*Editable PowerPoint presentation (126slides, text is editable but the images are not)
*Google Slides presentation version (126 slides, text is editable but the images are not)
*PDF Guided Notes (12 pages, not editable)
*PDF Guided Notes key (12 pages, not editable)
*Editable Guided Notes (12 pages, created in PowerPoint without the fancy clip art and fonts)
*Fillable PDF Guided Notes (12 pages, students type into text boxes, not editable in Adobe)
*Google Slides Guided Notes (12 pages, students type into text boxes, not editable in Slides)

***This resource is included in the following larger bundles:***
* U.S. History PowerPoint and Guided Notes Bundle #2 from 1877
* U.S. History 1877 to Present Bundle
* U.S. History Mega Bundle: Exploration to Present

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