Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Section 1
• tribal groups of the Great Plains and their means of survival
• impact of the rush for gold and silver
• significance of the Homestead Act (1862) to the Great Plains
• significance of the railroad to the Great Plains
• U.S. government policy toward the Native Americans
• reasons for battles with Indians
• Dawes Act (1887): identify and explain the significance of
• education for Native Americans
• significance of the buffalo
Section 2
• Cattle Industry
- origins and location of the longhorn cattle
- Mexican origins of cowboy techniques
- role of railroads
- source of demand for the cattle
• Cowboys
- who were the cowboys
- nature of work
- the long drive
- what brought the end of the cattle frontier
Section 3
• Farming the Great Plains
- role of railroads
- significance of Homestead Act
- conditions of life on the plains
- technical innovations that improved life on the Plains