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This free Westward Expansion Review Game is the perfect addition to your Westward Expansion Unit!
The lesson covers the following topics:
Cowboys and Miners:
1. The Gold Rush
2. Boom Towns and Ghost Towns
3. Entrepreneurs: Levi Strauss
4. Cowboy Life
5. Cattle Drives
6. Black Cowboys of Texas: Nat Love, Bose Ikard, and Bill Pickett
7. Famous Cattle Trails: Chisholm Trail and the Great Western Cattle Trail
Native American Conflicts:
1. The Lakota Tribe
2. Reservations
3. Battle of Little Bighorn
4. The Nez Perce Tribe
5. Chief Joseph
6. Wounded Knee Massacre
Pioneers:
1. The Great Plains
2. The Homestead Act
3. Pioneer Life
4. Weather on the Great Plains
5. Sod Houses
6. Grasshopper Invasions
7. Exodusters
The Transcontinental Railroad:
1. Travel before the Railroad
2. The Pony Express
3. The Telegraph and Samuel Morse
4. Transcontinental Railroad
5. The Union Pacific
6. The Central Pacific
7. Workers and Conflicts
8. Promontory Point, Utah
This lesson (along with interactive notes, printables, and more) is INCLUDED in my Westward Expansion Unit
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Take a look at my other history lessons:
• Civil War and Reconstruction Unit
• The Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression Unit
Save with Bundles: History Bundle 1, History Bundle 2, History Bundle 3, History Bundle 4
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