1. Why might this affect the Plains Indian way of life?
Learning Objective:
To investigate the impact of the railroad on Plains Indian culture
Why might this affect the Plains Indian way of life?
What does this suggest about the American Settlers attitude to the Great Plains?

2. What will you achieve by completing this topic?
Learning Objective:
To investigate the impact of the railroad on Plains Indian culture
What will you achieve by completing this topic?
US government
Evaluate the impact of the railroad in the destruction of Plains Indian culture
(Grade A/A*)
Explain how the Americans destroyed Plains Indian culture
(Grade C/B)
US army
Describe the destruction of Plains Indian culture
(Grade E/D)
railroad

3. To investigate the impact of the railroad on Plains Indian culture
Learning Objective:
To investigate the impact of the railroad on Plains Indian culture
Take some time to explore this image. The questions are there to help you study it.
1. What are the Americans doing in this picture?
2. How would this affect the Plains Indians?
3. Why was this engraving published in a newspaper in 1871?

4. The impact of the railroad on Plains Indian culture:
Learning Objective:
To investigate the impact of the railroad on Plains Indian culture
The impact of the railroad on Plains Indian culture:
What was the most important reason?
Railroads crossed the buffalo hunting grounds
The US army could move around quickly on the railroad
The railroads brought homesteaders onto the Plains
The railroad helped the US to fulfil Manifest Destiny

5. Get the downloadable sheets from Paignton Online
Learning Objective:
To investigate the impact of the railroad on Plains Indian culture
How did the US army and the government help to destroy Plains Indian culture?
US army
Government
Get the downloadable sheets from Paignton Online

6. Check your knowledge with this quick quiz
Learning Objective:
To investigate the impact of the railroad on Plains Indian culture
Check your knowledge with this quick quiz
When was the railroad completed?
Which new crop did it bring to the homesteaders?
Name a piece of technology brought by the railroad
Who led the Americans at the Battle of Little Bighorn?
Name the first land act passed by the government
What were the rules of this act?
Explain the phrase Total War
Name one of the peace treaties created by the Americans
Name the final battle in the Plains Wars