episode 6: heartland
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Episode 6: Heartland Heartland Writing and Discussion
Questions
1. Explain the benefits of the Transcontinental Railroad for the
United States ? (8.H.3.2) The benefits of the Transcontinental
Railroad for the United States were . . . 2. Describe the groups of
people who built the railroad.Explain the human costs of
constructing the transcontinental railroad? (8.G.1.3) The groups of
people who built the railroad were The human costs of its
construction were . . . Questions 1-2 of 8 Answer . . . Watch 0:00
11:15 Railroads, Theodore Judah, Chinese Immigrants and other
groups who built the railroads 1. Connecting the nation, shorten
travel time across long distances, make more land available by
providing people a way to get there 2. Irish immigrants, Chinese
immigrants, Civil War vets Human costs were lives, 1,500 Chinese
died from explosions and rockslides, 20,000 total human lives lost
Heartland Writing and Discussion Questions
3. Explainthe problems that people on the Great Plains had to deal
with? (8.G.1.3) (weather, living conditions, Mother Nature, etc.)
Problems on the Great Plains that people had to deal with were . .
. 4.Explain the reasons why people moved to and began living in the
Great Plains? (8.H.3.2) People moved to and began living in the
Great Plains because of . . . Questions 3-4 of 8 Answer in . . .
Watch 11:15 21:04 Great Plains, Homestead Act, hardships of living
in the West, 3. Mud/sod houses, thunderstorms, summer prairie
fires, wild animals, tornado alley, more twisters than anywhere
else on earth 400/year, 200 miler per hour winds, prehistoric
animal locust that destroy most of the crops and block out the sun
4. Homestead Act, was a way for people to get land that they
literally could get no where else. America = the promise of land.
More than half do leave Nebraska. Heartland Writing and Discussion
Questions
Watch 27:10 37:00 Cowboys, Texas Longhorn breed, guns (colt 45)
University of TexasLonghorns mascot, named after the special breed
of cattle Watch 27:10 37:00 Cowboys, Texas Longhorn breed, guns
(colt 45) Heartland Writing and Discussion Questions
6. Explain the consequences of the destruction of the bison
population for Native Americans? (8.G.1.3) The consequences of the
destruction of the bison population or Native Americans were . . .
Question 6 of 8 Answer . . . Watch 21:05 27:10 Movement west
affects on buffalo/bison, decrease in buffalo, affect on Native
Americans 8. They got everything for their livelihood from the
bison 9. Their life support is taken, they go starving and are
forced onto reservations General Custer Chief Sitting Bull Battle
of Little Big Horn Heartland Writing and Discussion Questions
7. Describe the outcome of conflicts between Native Americans and
the U.S. military on the Great Plains? (8.H.2.1) The outcome of
conflicts between Native Americans and the U.S. military on the
plains was . . . Question 7 of 8 Answer in . . . Watch 37:00 41:10
Native American land loss, different tribes affected by settling
West, gold in black hills, prospectors, General Custer, Battle of
Little Big Horn, Battle at Wounded Knee 7. Battle of Little Big
Horn, Sioux won and General Custer and all of his men were killed.
Wounded Knee, after a gun went out, U.S. soldiers killed all the
Native Americans. Dawes Act passed, trying to help the Native
Americans, but they were all pushed onto reservations. Heartland
Writing and Discussion Questions
8. In 1886, Richard Sears established the first mail order catalog.
Why do you think this development was a significant event in U.S.
history? (8.H.3.3) I think that Richard Sears establishing the
first mail order catalog was a significant event in U.S. history
because Question 8 of 8 Answer in . . . Watch 41:10 45:56 Emergence
of standard time, mail order catalog and Sears, summarizing the
importance of the railroad 8. Opinion
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