West

West

Please respond to any three links below. Remember a blog response is a paragraph that points out three things that you learned from the link. 

Nez Perce

Sitting Bull

http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/resources/archives/one/ The West PBS

http://www.legendsofamerica.com/oldwest.html Legend's of the West

http://www.thewildwest.org/ Wild West Site

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/owfrm.htm Eye Witness to History - Neat Site

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~poindexterfamily/OldWestSlang.htmlSlang
Unknown Facts on Custer's last stand

http://www.ahsd25.k12.il.us/curriculum/nativeamericans/index.html Native Americans

http://www.native-languages.org/kids.htm Native Americans for Kids

http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/native/ Lewis and Clark Site

Railroad

http://cprr.org/Museum/Chinese.html Central Pacific Railroad

http://www.wyomingtalesandtrails.com/sherman2.html Building the Pacific Union RR

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/rrhtml/rrintro.html History of building the RR

Farming

http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/C/CA076.html Drives

http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/places/trails_ter/cattle.htm PBS

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~itgenweb/itprojects/roads/cattle-trails.htm Trails

http://www.wyomingtalesandtrails.com/cattle.html Trails

You Tube Clips

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-R31Yjs28k RR

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89auXmDHcl4&feature=related Chinese Help

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApPlcagZzkY Cattle Drive in Art

www.eyewitnesshistory.com/pfknee.htm Reading on time period

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO2PXydTCaM&Feature=related Quotes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-0Y6yrF4hM&feature-related Crazy Horse Song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eum4xW4X8&feature=related Geronimo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEMdN_4GAs4 Chief Joseph

Chief Joseph Speech from a Movie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?=mFqbyvgAkpY&feature=related Music Video Wounded Knee

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFg0rYAG7UU Custer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-C2rAvCcuY&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS6LY0I0VK0&feature=fvw America the beautiful

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLyBkH4Q2d0&feature=related

http://www.isu.edu/~trinmich/Allabout.html Oregon Trail

Immigration
Lost Boys of Sudan
Somalis in Maine
Bhutan Can't Go Home

Westward Expansion Analysis

Westward Expansion 

1. Using the Painting, entitled American Progress, please list and describe 5 subjects/objects from the painting and exemplify Westward Expansion. Credit will be given for only subjects/objects that are clearly explained, including the significance of the subject/object chosen and the historical connection made. 

2..    Inquiry.  Write a question that is left unanswered by this painting.

3.    After you have read some more information on the painting, review your answers to the questions in #2 and explain something that you learned from the readings.

4.    Who was the artist?  For whom was the artist working?  Do you think that the artist has a message beyond simply documenting the moment?  If so, what might the message have been?

http://picturinghistory.gc.cuny.edu/item.php?item_id=180 Help with 3 and 4
http://www.csub.edu/~gsantos../img0061.html 3 and 4
http://www.colorado.edu/AmStudies/lewis/west/gastap.htm 3 and 4

* Feel free to pull up a bigger picture to use for analysis.