DIRECTIONS: Use pioneer letters and narratives from the websites below, and your history or literature text books to research issues of American Westward Movement. 1. What was the effect of Manifest Destiny on native-born Americans and immigrants to the United States? 2. How did immigrants from various nations sustain a sense of self and cultural identity within the United States? 3. How did trains and the transcontinental railroad affect western settlement and urban growth along the rail lines? 4. How did women's lives and rights change from 1890 to 1920, especially in the West and Nebraska? 5. What aspects and promises of pioneering were emphasized by popular novels and advertisements to encourage settlement of the West? 6. How quickly did changes in communications, road systems, and "civilizations" come to western states? YOU MUST WORK IN YOUR GROUP TO ANSWER YOUR ASSIGNED QUESTION. YOU MUST USE TEXTUAL EVIDENCE TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION. YOU WILL BE REPORTING BACK TO YOUR CLASSMATES.
http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/program/episodes/five/nebraska.htm
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
http://historymatters.gmu.edu
http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/immigration/
http://tdl.org/txlor-dspace/bitstream/handle/2249.3/684/05_changes_transport.htm?sequence=17
http://www.elderweb.com/book/export/html/2816
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