Professional Documents
Culture Documents
A. Homestead Act
Go to:
http://web.archive.org/web/20050219084403/http:/www.nps.gov/home/
homestead_act.html
2. What were the qualifications to be able to claim a 160 acre parcel of land?
3. Besides making improvements on the land, how many years did you have to live on the
land before keeping this free land?
5. Click on the Map of Homesteading States. How many states were homesteaded
under this act?
C. Chief Joseph
Go to: http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/a_c/chiefjoseph.htm
11. Which American general was impressed with Josephs 1,400 mile
march?
12. What was Josephs final sentence of his famous surrender speech?
14. What did his doctor say was the cause of his death?
D. Cattle Drives
Go to: http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/places/trails_ter/cattle.htm
15. What were the names of three Cattle Trails used by Texas cattlemen
to move their cattle to market?
16. Click on Charles Goodnight. What organization did Goodnight join in 1857?
18. What promise did Goodnight keep to his partner after he died fighting off a band of
Comanches.
E. Cowboys
Go to:
http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/program/episodes/five/cowboys.htm
21. Whos father let him help drive a herd of cattle from Texas to
Nebraska when he was just 10 years old?
25. What ordinances did cowtowns begin to pass in order to control the
cowboys that entered their towns?
F. Indian Wars
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http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/program/episodes/six/yellowhair.htm
26. In 1874, who led an army of more than 1,000 soldiers from Fort
Abraham Lincoln and marched into the Black Hills of Dakota Territory?
30. What vision did Sitting Bull have after climbing to a hilltop in the
early spring of 1876?
32. Where were 3,000 Lakota and Cheyenne were camped on June 6th?
33. How many times did Sitting Bull slash his arms as a sign of
sacrifice?
34. What name did whites give the winding stream that the Lakota and
Cheyenne called the Greasy Grass?
35. In the end, how many men in Custer's command died at the Battle
of Little Bighorn?
G. Transcontinental Railroad
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http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/program/episodes/five/grandanvil.ht
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36. How many miles of railroad track was planned from Omaha to
Sacramento?
37. Which two railroad companies did Congress give charters to build
it the transcontinental railroad?
Go to:
http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/program/episodes/five/artilleryheave
n.htm
38. What immigrant group did Charles Crocker recommend take the
place of his workers who took off to find gold in Nevada?
39. About how many Chinese died digging and blasting for Charles
Crocker and the Central Pacific?
Go to:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/introduction/tcrr
-intro/
H. Wounded Knee
Go to:
http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/program/episodes/eight/likegrass.htm
41. What disturbing vision did Sitting Bull while living on the Standing
Rock reservation?
42. Who was the Paiute medicine man and prophet that was
responsible for the Ghost Dance?
43. According to Wovoka, what would happen after his people purified
themselves and dances in a large circle, chanting and appealing to the
spirits of their ancestors?