Turn of the century - Changing america
I Can...
- describe the cattle trails in the late 19th century including Black Cowboys of Texas, the Great Western Cattle Trail and the Chisholm Trail
- compare and contrast the effects of the transcontinental railroad in the late 19th century on cowboys, Native Americans, and homesteaders
- describe the impact of westward expansion on Native Americans, including the Battle of Big Horn and relocation of Native Americans
- describe the impact of American life by the Wright brothers, George Washington Carver, Alexander Graham Bell, and Thomas Edison
- explain how William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt expanded America's role in the world to include the Spanish-American War and the building of the Panama Canal
- describe the reasons people emigrated to the Unites States, from where the emigrated, and where they settled
- locate important places in the United States associated with the turn of the century