Tasks:
- Introduction: Industrialization did not just impact the lives of factory workers in urban areas. As America's economy transitioned from an agrarian to industrial one, the farmer felt pressure as well. The next few days of class transition our focus away from labor to the farmer.
- Contextualize the American West: Integrating the national economy required the American government to incorporate the Great Plains into the country. For years, many settlers pushed beyond the Great Plains to settle on the West Coast. With the end of the Civil War, the American government had the power and desire to actively take the land of the Great Plains and make it part of the United States
- Question: How and Why did the lives of the Plains Indians change?
- Use the movie Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee to answer the "how" and "why" of this change.
