This presentation is based on Edexcel GCSE History of the West in 1800s book. By adding many pictures, photos, maps and diagrams and a video link, the course becomes more accessible to all ability pupils. This unit is about the problems of homesteading in the West: the weather and farming conditions on the Great Plains, the risks of homesteaders in settling in the West, how railroads improved the life of settlers, and what inventions made life of pioneers easier.

This presentation is based on Edexcel GCSE History of the West in 1800s book. By adding many pictures, photos, maps and diagrams and a video link, the course becomes more accessible to all ability pupils. This unit is about the Homestead Act of 1862, why it was introduced, the conditions of the Act, the results of the Act, positive and negative and its significance for the settlement of the West.

This presentation is based on Edexcel GCSE History of the West in 1800s book. By adding many pictures, photos, maps and diagrams and a video link, the course becomes more accessible to all ability pupils. This unit is about lawlessness and law and order in the West: new settlements issues with lawlessness (example of Abilene - a cow town), impact of the Civil War (deserters, outlaws, the Reno Gang).