APUSH AMSCO 6.3 Mind Map Guide

WESTWARD EXPANSION:CULTURAL & SOCIAL DEVELOPMENTS

AMSCO 6.3

Explain the causes & effects of the settlement of the West from 1877-1898

Closing the Frontier

Explain how historians have challenged Jackson's Frontier Thesis.

What was the largest movement of people in the 1890's?

Explain Frederick Jackson Turner's Frontier Thesis.

Marginalization of Mexican-Americans

Restriction of Native-Americans

Explain the interaction between Plains Indians and white settlers from the 1850's through the 1860's.Describe the interaction between Plains Indians and the U.S. government in the 1870's. Explain how the Ghost Dancing Movement led to the Wounded Knee Massacre. How did Helen Hunt Jackson impact the treatment of Native-Americans? Explain how the Dawes Act impacted Native-Americans.

Explain the status of Mexican landholders in the U.S. following the Mexican-American War.Describe the economic interactions of Mexican-Americans in the West.

Conservationism

Explain the efforts by the federal government to preserve lands out West.Explain the difference between Conservationists and Preservationists.