5th Grade: Western Expansion

This week and next 5th Grade students are studying America's western expansion in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Vocab:
Exoduster
Benjamin "Pap" Singleton
Sodbuster
Sod House

Key Concepts:

1. What were the difficulties faced by those who settled in the Great Plains?
2. How did the people of the Great Plains adapt to life there?
3. Why did many former slaves migrate to the Great Plains?