Moving West Assignment

Pioneers and settelers move west in search of opportunity

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Moving West

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Task

Create a poster or diarama display

Using information from Assignment 2: Moving West and this presentation create your own original design showing life on the western frontier in the 1820s.

Multiple Choice

What new transportation route allowed settlers to move into western New York state?

• Ohio Canal

• Erie Canal

• National Road

• Western Road

The National Road was the nation's first federally funded highway. When completed in 1837, the gravel road extended from the eastern seaboard to Vandalia, Illinois.

​​The National Road

​The Erie Canal was just one of many canals built between 1820 and 1860.

Canal Systems 1820-1860

​In 1802 Robert Livingston, a political and business leader, hired Robert Fulton to build a steamboat with a powerful engine.

Robert Fulton

Robert Fulton did not invent the technology of the steamboat, but his Clermont helped lead to the growth of steamboats in the United States.

the Clermont

Multiple Choice

What kind of housing was most common to the western pioneer in 1820?

• tent

• brick house

• stucco house

• log cabin

​Early homes were square log cabins without windows. They usually had fireplaces with mud chimneys, and dirt or gravel floors.

Log Cabin

Multiple Choice

What work did women have on the western frontier?

• gave birth without doctors

• kitted socks and clothing

• raise vegetable gardens

• all of these are correct

​They gave birth without doctors or hospitals, spun their own thread to make clothes, knitted socks and sweaters, milked cows, and raised vegetable gardens.

​Women on the frontier

Multiple Choice

What was school like on the frontier?

• one room schoolhouses

• bible used to teach reading

• books were rare

• all of these are correct

Had to be educated and physically fit to teach young childen of all ages.

​​Teachers

Teaching on the frontier took place in one-room schoolhouses.

​​Schools

​Diarama

• shoe box sized

• uses 3D materials

• Lots of color

• teaches the viewer about a specific subject

• uses background

• add labels to items

• create a title for viewers to see

​Poster

• Not plain

• little white space

• NEAT

• contains written and visual info

• original work

• like a movie poster

• carefully designed

• large print

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