Mr. Boothby KEY
US HISTORY B
Lecture Notes CH 18 Sec 1 and 2
Read page 542-555 in your textbook before you begin to answer these questions. Remember to always
answer by using complete sentences. Keep this sheet in your notebook.
Section 1
I. Like many Sioux before him, Standing Bear was eager for his first …
1. Where are the “Great Plains”?
Lie between the Mississippi River and Rocky Mountains, stretch north into Canada and south into Texas
2. What are reservations? Why did Indians refuse to live on them? What are your thoughts on them?
Areas of federal land set aside for Indians/hunting buffalo was impossible/ Usually the worst place ever!
3. When the Army built forts along the Sioux hunting grounds how did the Sioux respond?
Red Cloud responded with war/crazy horse and group of Sioux killed 82 cavalry troops
4. What was the Battle of the Little Bighorn?
Sioux warriors led by Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull/last major victory for the Indians
5. What happened after police killed Sitting Bull? How did this lead to the “Massacre at Wounded Knee”?
Many Sioux left the reservations/US Army found a camp of Sioux near Wounded Knee Creek they shot
130 Indians
6. Why did congress pass the “Dawes General Allotment Act in 1887”?
To lessen the tribal influence no Indian society by making land ownership private
6b. Why did we (Europeans) treat the Indians so poorly? What are your thoughts on their mistreatments?
How would you feel if you were placed on a reservation and I took your land (In the year 2039)?
6c. How were “Ghost Dances” similar to the beliefs of the ancient Egyptians?
Section 2
II. In 1859 great excitement swept the United States when news of a gold strike in
Colorado reached the…
7. What became known as the Comstock Lode? How much money was produced worth
of gold and silver?
Henry Comstock convinced O’ Riley and McLaughlin he owned the water source then bragged he found
the mine himself/400 million worth of Gold and Silver= BILLIONS TODAY
8. What were the steps to removing silver and gold trapped within the quartz rock that
only large companies had the funds to do?
Dug and blasted tunnels hundreds of feet in the mountain, then loaded ore onto mining carts and
brought it to the surface, ore was shipped to refining center then ores were crushed and melted
9. Describe The Pony Express.
Est. in 1860 system of messengers on horseback to carry mail from one relay station to another/2000
mile route/ Put out of business by telegraph/ Now internet is even faster…What’s next???
10. What did the Pacific Railway Acts help? Why did the US government do it?
Gave railroad companies large land grants and loans that could be sold for construction cost/ To speed
the progression of railroad expansion= make our country connected=$$$$$
11. Who “particularly worked” as the Union Pacific workforce? What percent of Chinese
immigrants made up the Central Pacific workforce?
Irish immigrants/ 85%
12. What impact did Railroads have? THINK OF TEN AND LIST THEM BELOW!
Increased economic growth and population in the west/encouraged settlement/better transportation
13. How were Indians and other races (besides white European) treated at mines and
prospect (Gold/Silver) sites? What are your thoughts on this type of treatment?
Mr. Boothby
US HISTORY B
Lecture Notes CH 18 Sec 1 and 2
Name_____________________
Read pages 542-555 in your textbook before you begin to answer these questions. Remember to always
answer by using complete sentences. Keep this sheet in your notebook.
Section 1
I. Like many _________ before him, Standing ______ was eager for his first …
1. Where are the “Great Plains”?
2. What are reservations? Why did Indians refuse to live on them? What are your thoughts on them?
3. When the Army built forts along the Sioux hunting grounds how did the Sioux respond?
4. What was the Battle of the Little Bighorn?
5. What happened after police killed Sitting Bull? How did this lead to the “Massacre at Wounded Knee”?
6. Why did congress pass the “Dawes General Allotment Act in 1887”?
6b. Why did we (Europeans) treat the Indians so poorly? What are your thoughts on their mistreatments?
How would you feel if you were placed on a reservation and I took your land (In the year 2039)?
6c. How were “Ghost Dances” similar to the beliefs of the ancient Egyptians?
Section 2
II. In _________ great excitement swept the United States when news of a ________
strike in Colorado reached the…
7. What became known as the Comstock Lode? How much money was produced worth
of gold and silver?
8. What were the steps to removing silver and gold trapped within the quartz rock that
only large companies had the funds to do?
9. Describe The Pony Express.
10. What did the Pacific Railway Acts help? Why did the US government do it?
11. Who “particularly worked” as the Union Pacific workforce? What percent of Chinese
immigrants made up the Central Pacific workforce?
12. What impact did Railroads have? THINK OF TEN AND LIST THEM BELOW!
13. How were Indians and other races (besides white European) treated at mines and
prospect (Gold/Silver) sites? What are your thoughts on this type of treatment?