2016-17 Alcova Computer Lab
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third Stop: Great Plains - Late nineteenth Century 


Resources

homestead_act.docx
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homestead_act_script.docx
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homestead_flyer.pub
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Mission: You and your group will be researching the Homestead Act to create an advertisement.  You will use your online textbook to find the information.  After you have found the answers to these questions, you will create a poster to persuade Europeans and Americans from the East Coast to move west.  

The Homestead Act of 1862


Infomercial Example
What ideas could you use for your advertisement? 

Alcova Elementary School
Phone: 678-376-8500
Email: Derrick_J_thomas@Gwinnett.k12.ga.us
Address: 770 Ewing Chapel Road; Dacula, GA  30019