American West Revision

This section has links to some good revision clips and some useful powerpoints and documents for revision. All past papers can be found on an earlier blog post.

Easter Revision Homework
Easter Revision American West Paper

Early Migrants

Frozen body mountain men

Mountain men montage

Early travels on the plains with the Oglala - BBC

California trail

Hardships on the trail

Problems on the trail

Wagon trail west - family

Miners 1840-1870

The effect on the natives - greedy whites

Gold in the black hills

Gold prospectors challenged by the army

Settling the plains 1860's

Sod houses

BBC Sod busters

Farming problems and solutions

Cowboys and cattle

Chisholm trail - Cattlemen and cowboys

Johnson County War - information sheet

The railroads

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Part 5

The last gasp of the native Americans

The way it was before the whites

The Buffalo

Crazy horse biography

Big Horn and Beyond - BBC

Wounded Knee 9mins

Wounded Knee 17mins

Overview to the American West

Overview questions

Gimme Five - revision sheets