Thursday Chapter 6 Compacted

Chapter 6: Section 1 -- The New South.  

• Checkpoint (p.158): Why did southern farmers face hard times?
• Checkpoint (p.159): How did southern blacks lose their rights?
• Section 1 Assessment (p.159):
• #4: What positive steps did the South take to industrialize after the Civil War?
• #5: How did southern agriculture suffer from the domination of cotton?
• #6: How did southern African Americans both gain and lose civil rights after the Civil War?

Chapter 6: Lesson 2: Westward Expansion and the American Indians

• Checkpoint (p.162): What three circumstances hurt Native Americans?
• Map Skills (p.163): #1 & 2
• Checkpoint (p.164): Why did tensions exist between settlers and Indians?

Chapter 6: Lesson 3: 

• Checkpoint (p.172): How did the government encourage the development of a transcontinental railroad?
• Checkpoint (p.173): How did the railroad affect the cattle industry?
• Farming the Plains (p.174): How did settlers adapt to the challenges of living on the Plains?
• Checkpoint (p.175): Why did farmers move to the Plains?
• Checkpoint (p.176): What were some of the causes of prejudice and discrimination in the West?