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THE
WESTERN FRONTIER
Webquest
Use this site: http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/s_z/sutter.htm
to answer the following questions?
1. What was John Sutter building when gold was discovered?
2. Who actually discovered the gold?
3. What happened to John Sutter after gold was discovered?
Use this website: http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=179
To answer the following questions:
4. What was the Comstock Lode?
5. Where was it? (list both the city and the state)
6. Who discovered it?
Use this website: http://www.fau.edu/library/brody22.htm
to answer the following questions?
8. What is Levi Strauss famous for?
9. Why did Jacob Davis add copper rivets?
Use this site to answer the following questions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homesteading
10. When was the Homestead Act passed?
11. What was the Homestead Act? Your answer needs to include specific information!
Use this site: http://www.nps.gov/jeff/farmers.html
to answer the following question:
12. What is a “soddie”?
13. How is a sod house built?
14. What were some of the hardships sodbusters faced?
Click on this site: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/tcrr/sfeature/sf_interview.html
Find the “hyperlink” that will help you answer the following question:
15. “Living alone on the plains meant certain death. It was a hard life, taught by Nature.”
How did this knowledge keep Native Americans so faithful to the land?
Find the “hyperlink” that will help you answer the
following question:
16. “The buffalo … was the most important natural resource to the Plains Indians.”
How many ways did the Plains Indians use the buffalo?
17. Name seven (7) of the ways the Plains Indians used the buffalo.
Use this website: http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/places/trails_ter/cattle.htm
to answer the following questions:
18. What was the name of the 1st cattle trail blazed after the Civil War?
19. What markets did this trail go to?
20. Why did cowboys use the Chisholm Trail?
21. What state is Abilene in? (Hint: you will need to use the “hyperlink”)
22. How did Dodge City begin?
23. What is Dodge City best known for?
Use this website: http://hometown.aol.com/Gibson0817/cowboys.htm
to answer the following questions:
25. What was the name of the top TWO highest paid jobs on the cattle drive?
26. Pick one of the jobs and explain the responsibilities they had.
27. List the usual items of gear a cowboy carried.
Use this site to answer the following questions:
28. What is engraved on the Golden Last Spike?
29. Where and when was the last rail laid with the golden spike?
Use this site to answer the following question:
http://usparks.about.com/cs/parkhistory/a/transcontrr.htm
30. Why was the completion of the transcontinental railroad so important?
31. What are the names of the two railroad lines the transcontinental railroad connected?
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32. Who were the workers on the transcontinental railroad?
http://bushong.net/dawn/about/college/ids100/workers.shtml
Use this website: http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/a_c/crazyhorse.htm
to answer the following questions:
33. Who was Crazy Horse?
34. How did he earn his reputation among the Lakota people?
35. What happened on June 25, 1876?
Use this website: http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/recon/custer_1
to answer the following questions: (Caution:
you will need to read all three pages!)
36. The Battle of Little Bighorn is also known as:
37. Why didn’t Custer wait for reinforcements?
38. Name two (2) reasons the Sioux Indians refused to leave?
39. What happened to Custer and the 7th Calvary?