1.19.2016

Thursday January 14, 2016

Industrializing America: Farmers in Crisis

Tasks: 

  • Continue watching selected excerpts from Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee  to answer the question Why and how did the lives of the Plains Indians change after the Civil War?
  • End class by considering the way in which interpretations of the American West changed from the late 1800s to today.
    • Consider reviewing page 667 in Kennedy before the next exam.
    • Be prepared to support different historians' interpretations of the West with evidence from chapter 26 on the next exam.