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Chapter 19 Scavenger Hunt                            Period                                             

           CLICK ONTO EACH OF THE 20 QUESTIONS TO FIND THE ANSWERS.

Question 1

http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/acs/1890s/woundedknee/WKghost.html

Scroll down to the song sheet.  What is the name of the song performed during the Ghost Dance?

Question 2

http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/a_c/chiefjoseph.htm

Scroll down to the seventh paragraph.  What is the last line of Chief Joseph’s surrender speech?

Question 3

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Bluffs/3010/homestd.htm

What was the minimum age requirement to claim a 160 acre parcel of land?

Question 4

http://homepages.tesco.net/~richard.alonzo/Events/sandcreek.htm

What was the date in which John Chivington and his 700 troops shot down over 150 Cheyenne?

Question 5

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Transcontinental_railroad_route.png

Which two railroad lines met at Promontory, Utah to create the first transcontinental railroad?

Question 6

http://montanakids.com/db_engine/presentations/presentation.asp?pid=53

Scroll down to the third paragraph.  How many miles would the herd of 2500 cattle travel per day?

Question 7

http://www.sioux.org/1851_treaty.html

Scroll down to Article 7.

How much money was the United States required to give to the Indian Nations each year for ten years?

Question 8

http://skyways.lib.ks.us/orgs/fordco/dodgecity.html

Name one of the stores in the first picture. 

Question 9

http://www.crystalinks.com/sundance.html

Name three Native American tribes who practiced the sun dance.

Question 10

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Little_Bighorn

The Battle of Little Bighorn fought on June 26, 1876 is often called?

Question 11

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comstock_Lode

How much money did the Comstock Lode yield in silver and gold between 1859 and 1878?

Question 12

http://www.ghosttowngallery.com/

Select St. Elmo, Colorado. 

What was the original name of the town?

Question 13

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/documents/docpages/document_page50.htm

What date did Congress pass the Dawes Act?

Question 14

http://www.lib.ndsu.nodak.edu/ndirs/exhibitions/pioneer/camera/sod.htm

Click on each picture of the five sod houses.  Which house would you prefer to live in?

Question 15

http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/i_r/redcloud.htm

Scroll down to the fourth paragraph.  Where did Red Cloud and the Lakotas defeat Lieutenant Colonel William Fetterman's column of eighty men in December of 1866?

Question 16

http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/kids/buffalo.html

Click on the buffalo.  Name at least one use for each of the following buffalo parts;

hooves                                                                       

stomach                                          

bladder                                                                 

hide                                                

hair                                                                      

sinews                                             

meat                                                                    

brains                                              

skull                                                                      

horns                                               

bones                                                                   

beard                                             

Question 17

http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/kids/buffalo.html

Click on powerful strategy.

How did Indians hunt and kill buffalo without guns?

Question 18

http://nb.wsd.wednet.edu/lmc/webhunts/nativeam_webhunt.htm

Click on 1. First Americans.  Then click the icon for Lakotas.

A. What does Lakota mean?

Click on clothing.

B. What did Native Americans wear on their feet?

Click on housing. 

C. What does “tipis” mean?

Question 19

http://nb.wsd.wednet.edu/lmc/webhunts/nativeam_webhunt.htm

Click on 5. Recipes.  Click Here for Native Tech’s Top 10 Rated Recipes.

Name any three.

Question 20

http://nb.wsd.wednet.edu/lmc/webhunts/nativeam_webhunt.htm

A. Click on 6. NativeTech: - Games And Toys

Play Match the Design game.  How many attempts did it take you to complete the picture?

B. Play Keep it in the Air, Virtual Coloring Book, and Find his Acorns.  Which game did you like the best?

Additional Pictures from Chapter 19 "The Wild West"

Thank you for Participating.

Mr. Wheeler