Native Americans and Westward Expansion: Cultures and Conflicts: CKHG Student Reader

Native Americans and Westward Expansion: Cultures and Conflicts is a single volume divided into two separate sections (corresponding to Unit 12 and Unit 13 for schools using the CKHG series in Sequence grade-level order):

• Westward Expansion After the Civil War continues the story begun in an earlier book (Westward Expansion Before the Civil War), focusing on the causes and effects of the westward movement of Americans in the later 1800s. Students learn how westward expansion was spurred by the lure of gold and silver, the passage of the Homestead Act, and the building of transcontinental railroads. Students explore the myths and realities of cowboy life and the “Wild West.” Students also learn how the United States purchased Alaska from Russia, and consider the late-nineteenth century idea of the “closing of the American frontier.”
• Native Americans: Cultures and Conflicts explores the ways of life of diverse Native American peoples, and goes on to examine how their cultures were disrupted, displaced, and profoundly altered by westward expansion and American government policies and practices in the 1800s. Students learn about the diverse ways of life of Native American peoples in the Great Basin and Plateau regions, the Northern and Southern Plains, and the Pacific Northwest. Students explore how the lives of Plains dwellers were changed by the introduction of the horse and the near extinction of bison. Students consider how various American government policies and actions displaced Native Americans from their lands onto reservations, broke down tribal life, and compelled assimilation. Students also learn how the Sioux, Nez Perce, and other Native Americans fought to maintain their lands, their independence, and their ways of life.

Some of the content of this unit is tied to the “Pathway to Citizenship,” an array of civics-focused knowledge, questions, and activities.

Related Components

• Teacher Guide: with detailed lesson plans, activity page masters, additional activities, and assessments
• Timeline Cards: visual aids to reinforce big ideas, chronology, and context

Preview the Book

You may preview this book in its entirety by downloading the CKHG Student Reader in PDF form for either Unit 12 or Unit 13.

Bundles:

• Native Americans and Westward Expansion: Cultures and Conflicts Homeschool Set:
  1 Student Readers
  1 Teacher Guide
  1 set of Timeline Cards
• Native Americans and Westward Expansion: Cultures and Conflicts Classroom Set:
  25 Student Readers
  1 Teacher Guide
  1 set of Timeline Cards
• Grade 5 American History Set:
  For each of four CKHG titles:
  25 Student Readers
  1 Teacher Guide
  1 set of Timeline Cards (for all except The Geography of the United States)
• Grade 5 Complete Grade-Level Set:
  For each of nine CKHG titles:
  25 Student Readers
  1 Teacher Guide
  1 set of Timeline Cards (for all except World Lakes and The Geography of the United States)

About CKHG

Core Knowledge History and Geography™ (CKHG) is a comprehensive program in world and American history and geography, integrating topics in civics and the arts. CKHG helps students build knowledge of the diverse civilizations, cultures, and concepts specified in the Core Knowledge Sequence.

CKHG Student Readers offer engagingly written text with many color illustrations, maps, vocabulary sidebars, and a glossary. In general, the content and presentation in CKHG Student Readers for Grades 3-5 are appropriate for young readers from the upper elementary grades through middle school (Lexile levels 650 – 980).

Using CKHG in the Classroom

• For Social Studies: Used in their recommended sequence, CKHG materials can form the basis of an engaging Social Studies program that builds historical and geographical knowledge and skills grade by grade.
• For Language Arts: You can also use CKHG to integrate content-rich nonfiction into your Reading/Language Arts lessons. CKHG objectives are correlated with the Common Core English Language Arts standards, which call for increased reading of nonfiction informational texts.

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Paperback
6.7 in. W x 9.6 in. H
145 pages

ISBN: 978-1-68380-310-2