USA
Part 1 - Westward Expansion
You will need to know about -
The wagon trails west – wagon trails and difficulties
Mormons
Gold mining
Homestead Act 1862
The Transcontinental Railway, why it was built – difficulties - impact
Manifest Destiny
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BBC Bitesize on westward expansion and gold
Excellent links for Wagon Trains and Gold
The Mormons
BBC Bitesize on the Mormons
The Transcontinental Railroad
BBC Bitesize on Homesteader problems
Native Americans
You will need to know about -
What were their beliefs?
What happened to the buffalo?
The Sand Creek Massacre
Peace treaties and reservations
The Battle of the Little Bighorn
Links for Native American Tribes
Ducksters
The School Run
Native American Facts
A summary of the Sand Creek Massacre
BBC Bitesize on the Indian Wars
BBC Bitesize on the Battle of the Little Bighorn
History Learning Site on the Battle of the Little Bighorn
Part 2 - North v South
You will need to know about -
The differences between North and South
The compromises – Missouri Compromise 1820, Compromise of 1850, Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Dred Scott Decision
The Raid on Harper's Ferry
The causes of the Civil War
Lincoln’s election
Secession and Fort Sumter
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Slavery
The Underground Railroad
The Compromise of 1850
Lincoln
Election of Lincoln 1860
Part 3 - Reconstruction after the Civil War
You will need to know about -
The Freedman's Bureau
The Black Codes
Radical Reconstruction
Carpetbaggers and Scalawags
Sharecropping
The Ku Klux Klan
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