Question

Lesson 17 Acrostic Poem - How did settlers change the West and affect American Indians?

Directions: Write an acrostic poem about the clash of cultures that resulted from the settlement of the West. Begin the lines in each poem with the letters in the word settlement. You must incorporate the key
terms homesteader reservation transcontinental railroad and subsidy in your poem.


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Answer 1

Settlement brought the homesteader

Endless miles of land to claim

Till the soil and build a life

Tensions rose as they took the land

Lives were lost in the clash of cultures

Efforts made to assimilate

Many forced onto reservations

Endless struggles for survival

New paths opened by the transcontinental railroad

Transportation and communication improved with subsidy

Making the West a melting pot of cultures