Georgia Studies: UPDATED - Westward Expansion Interactive Reading Guide

This is an updated reading guide that reflects the most recent changes of the Georgia Standards. It is an awesome way for students to learn the content for westward expansion and its connection to Georgia.

The 8 page reading guide is visually appealing, and throughout each page students are prompted to answer questions, make inferences, study maps, or simply define a vocabulary word or event

Topics included in the reading guide are: Treaty of Paris 1783, Manifest Destiny, Headright System, Yazoo Act of 1795, Yazoo Land Fraud, Georgia's Land Lottery, Georgia life in the 1800s, establishment of UGA, Georgia's 5 capitals, cotton gin, mechanical reaper, transportation modes of the 1800s such as the railroad, and the importance of Terminus (city of Atlanta).

Included is a a 2 page student handout and a key .My students often comment that these reading guides help aid their understanding of the content in an simplistic and interesting way!