America Story of Us: Heartland
Directions: Answer the following questions as you watch the movie
Transcontinental Railroad
1. How long does it take to cross the country by wagon?
2. Which groups of people helped build the railroad?
a.
b.
c.
3. How are the Chinese viewed?
4. May 10, 1869 the Transcontinental Railroad is complete. How long does it take to cross
the country now?
Great Plains
5. Anyone with a $10 fee can claim free land. Who took advantage of this offer to settle the
West?
a.
b.
6. Why did people have to live in sod and mud houses?
7. They had major storms because there were no mountains to stop the ______________.
Buffalo
8. What are most settlers hunting to extinction?
9. What is different between the Plains Indian’s use of buffalo and the whites’ use?
10. Why are Native Americans forced to reservations?
Cowboys and Cattle Herders
11. How far do the cattle herders have to take the cattle to get to the railroads in Kansas?
12. 1 out of 3 herders are either:
a.
b.
13. What new invention changes where the herders can go?
Native Americans
14. The U.S. confiscated Native American homeland to make way for what?
15. After surrendering, what goes off to trigger a massacre at Wounded Knee?