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Prezi

Monday: We started on our projects and we created a outline of what it is about

Tuesday: We continued working on our project and had our outline checked by Mr. Bruns

Wednesday: Early Out, We continued working on our project and we had to start finishing up.

Thursday: We started presenting our projects

Native Americans-

• Sedentary Farmers- Lived in one place, houses made from stone, grew plants like squash, beans, and corn

• Nomadic-Hunters, survived by moving through the plains

Buffalo-

• Meat- eaten immediately or dried to store
• Skin and Fur- Blankets, clothes, rugs
• Bones-Knives
• Hooves- Glue

Settlers-

• Believed that owning land would give them more power
• Wagons and Railroad
• Believed that the Native Americans had not "claimed the land"
• Would try to get more land for more business

Gold Rush-

• California became the 31st state
• 1850- Surface gold disapeared
• 1848- James Marshall finds gold

Restricted By the Government

• 1834- Great plains as one reservation
• They chose to ignore the this- lead to battles
• Broke up reservation land to individuals

The Battle of Wounded Knee-

• Battle between Lakota people and the U.S. army
• Wounded Knee Creak in South Dakota
• 300 Lakota people and 30 soldiers killed
• Army was sent to take the weapons

Cattle Becomes Big Business-

• Charqui- jerky
• Bronco caballo- rough horse, ran wild

Cow Town-

• Found More convenient route
• Abilene, Kansas
• 35,000-75,000

Day in the life of a cowboy

• 10-14 hours a day
• 15-40 years old
• Spring when it began
• Kept heard in pin

Long Drive-

• 3 months to complete
• $100 or more per month
• 250-300 cows per 1 cowboy

Friday- We continued presenting our projects

Settlers meet the challenges of the plains

• Washed out crops
• Hard to plow

Women's Work-

• Often had to help in the fields
• Doctoring
• food
• built houses
• worked in schools and churches

Farmers in debt

• Machinery cost
• Loans
• Droughts
• Bankruptcy
• Bonanza Farms

Government Support for Settlement

• Homestead(1862-1900)
• 160 acres
• Land Rush
• 600,000 people
• Oklahoma
• Sooner State
• 270,000,000

The Closing of the Frontier

• Henry Washburn
• Wyoming
• 1872 Yellowstone was created
• Frontier Closed

Agricultural Education-

• Morrill Act
• Hatch Act
• Grains for arid soil
• Dry farming methods
• These things helped eastern plains become "the breadbasket of the nation

Technical Support for farmers

• Sod houses
• Steel Plows
• Water-pumping windmills

Monday- No School, Labor Day.

Tuesday- Reviewing for the test tomorrow

Civil War-

Advantages/ disadvantages for the civil war

• North had more people, had more materials, had more food, better railroads, and they had a navy before the south did
• South knew the trains better, had better generals, 

South surrendered at the Appomattox courthouse to the north.

Reconstruction-

• The time after the civil war when the south had to rebuild and reorganize, and they were brought back into the union
• 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments where passed
• Rebuilt south economically, socially, politically, and physically
• Split the south into 5 military district controlled by the U.S army
• Governments were accused of widespread corruption, and they raised taxes, set up schools, helped ex slaves, industrialized the south, and built railroads
• Southern governments taken over by "carpetbaggers"- northerners came into the south. "scalawags"- southerners that helped the north 
• Left very deep divisions between the northern states and the southern states
• Once the northern governments and military left the south, traditional rich, white racist males took back over
• Jim Crow laws and segregation was established
• The compromise of 1877- Unwritten deal between Northern and Southern politicians that settled the heavily disputed 1876 U.S presidential

Wednesday- We started on the group test.

Thursday- We finished taking the group test and then we had time left to do other things

Friday- Mr. Bruns presented too us about how to do a proper presentation and are going to start our new project on monday.

Monday: We started showing our projects

Tuesday: We continued showing our projects

Wednesday: We finished showing projects and then Mr. Bruns started showing us his powerpoint

Thursday: We continued looking at Mr. Bruns powerpoint 

Friday: We continued looking at the powerpoint and are going to finish up on tuesday.