Ranching and the Open Range
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The document discusses key concepts related to ranching and the open range, including terms like the Homestead Act, long drives, and manifest destiny, which encouraged westward migration and cattle ranching. It outlines activities to enhance learning, such as close reading, discussing answers as a team, and formulating questions about the material. Additionally, it addresses the influence of Mexican vaqueros on American cowboy traditions and factors that contributed to the end of the open range.
Ranching and the Open Range
- 1. Ranching and the Open Range 2 - D D 1
- 2. New Vocabulary Homestead Act • 1862 law that provided free land in the West to anyone willing to settle there and develop it. Encouraged westward migration. Long Drive • cattle drive that brought longhorns from the Mexico- Texas border to the rail depots in the mid-West. Manifest Destiny • Idea held by a nineteenth-century Americans that the United States had a God-given right to rule the continent, from the Atlantic the Pacific.
- 3. Ranchers and the Open Range Read the Section, Ranchers and the Open Range 1. Use your annotation skills (Close Reading, binder page H) 2. In the margin, • write 2 new things you have learned • write 1 question you have about something you read
- 4. Ranchers and the Open Range 3. Write Question 1 and give YOUR Answer. What are three (3) things that made cattle ranching profitable after the Civil War? 4. Discuss your answers as a team. Together, create one answer for your team that includes ideas from everyone and write Your TEAM’S Answer on your paper.
- 5. Ranchers and the Open Range T E X A S L O N G H O R N
- 6. Ranchers and the Open Range
- 7. Vaqueros and Cowboys Read the Section, “Vaqueros and Cowboys” 1. Use your annotation skills (Close Reading, binder page H) 2. In the margin, • write 2 new things you have learned • write 1 question you have about something you read
- 8. Vaqueros and Cowboys 3. Write Question 2 and give YOUR Answer. What does the American cowboy tradition owe to the Mexican vaquero? 4. Discuss your answers as a team. Together, create one answer for your team that includes ideas from everyone and write Your TEAM’S Answer on your paper.
- 9. Vaqueros and Cowboys J A M E S W A L K E R ’ S “ A H O R S E C O R R A L ”
- 10. End of the Open Range Read the Section, “End of the Open Range” 1. Use your annotation skills (Close Reading, binder page H) 2. In the margin, • write 2 new things you have learned • write 1 question you have about something you read
- 11. End of the Open Range 3. Write Question 3 and give YOUR Answer. What are three (3) things that closed the Open Range and brought the end of the cattle drive? 4. Discuss your answers as a team. Together, create one answer for your team that includes ideas from everyone and write Your TEAM’S Answer on your paper.
- 12. End of the Open Range B A R B E D W I R E F E N C I N G
- 13. Summary • Independently, summarize what you learned about Ranching and the Open Range.