Crossing Indian Territory

Read p 180

Why did travelers count themselves lucky?

Describe the relay station @ Carriage Point. p 182

Watch Waynoka 3 min video

 Homestead Act  most important factor to stimulate Western settlement
    1.  Settlers could acquire up to 160 acres of land 
(quarter section) by simply living on it for five years,
    2.  improve the land
    3.  paying a nominal title fee of  $10.00 .

Pacific Railroad Act  authorized the construction of the transcontinental railroad.

Transcontinental railroad
 first to link the Atlantic and Pacific coast
1.  Union Pacific started from Omaha, Ne
2.  Central Pacific started from Sacramento, Ca

    Promontory Point - the place in Utah where the two railroad lines met.
    1. May 10, 1869 -  golden spike driven-
    2.  Reduced  3 month journey to 1 week.

What kind of trouble was brewing on the plains? p 183

Describe the painting "Hold Up" p 182

1868 picture
of Fort Supply
 Oklahoma

This fort was
later abandoned

Read and write a description of the Battle of the Washita p184-186.
What did Gen Custer do that hadn't been done since the Revolutionary War?


The Medicine Lodge Treaty was an attempt to bring peace to the Plains Indian Wars. But federal government never held up their end of the treaty.

Ft Sill was built to keep the Plains Indians on the western
reservations. 

Lawrie Tatum was sent to help with tribal peace

What did the U.S. government declare in 1874? p 188 What were renegades?  How many battles were fought in the Red River Campaign?  What happened to Chief Kicking Bird?

Watch Rose Rock 2 min video

   Photo Credits: 

Soddy :  Penny post Cards  - www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ sd/mystery/soddy.jpg
Ten Mile Day  : Written and Illustrated by Mary Ann Fraser Published by Henry Holt and Company 1993
Promontory Point:            riverweb.cet.uiuc.edu/ SOCIETY/transcnt.jpg
Ft. Supply:       Camp Supply, Indian Territory  Harper's Weekly Magazine  February 27, 1869
Battle of Washita:  Library of Congress
Medicine Lodge Treaty:  Library of Congress
Fort Sill :  sill-www.army.mil/Museum/ birdseye.JPG
                  http://usatampa.com/WoM_Map.gif
Chief Kicking Bird: www.texasbeyondhistory.net/.../ kickingbird-lg.jpg

Lesson Objectives

Students will learn

OBJECTIVES: Students will be able to:

1. list

2. explain the difference between

3. describe the

4. chart on a map the

5. define the terms

6. Explain the significance of

Knowledge: Recall of data.

Comprehension: Understand the meaning, translation, interpolation, and interpretation of instructions and problems. State a problem in one's own words.

Application:
Use a concept in a new situation or unprompted use of an abstraction. Applies what was learned in the classroom into novel situations in the workplace.

Analysis:
Separates material or concepts into component parts so that its organizational structure may be understood. Distinguishes between facts and inferences. 

Synthesis:
Builds a structure or pattern from diverse elements. Put parts together to form a whole, with emphasis on creating a new meaning or structure.

Evaluation:
Make judgments about the value of ideas or materials.