17th - We contined to watch the entrepreneur video.
18th - We continued to watch the entrepreneur video and at the end of class went back to chapter 5 and watched some smaller videos about some notable people in the open range days.
19th -
5.1 - The Kansas-Nebraska act of 1854 Made Oklahoma the Indian territory, and in 1903 it was formed as Oklahoma and there was little Indian territory left. The destruction of the buffalo made it easier for the Native Americans defeatable. In the Dawes Act of 1887 gave land to Native Americans to form (160 acres). It ended the tribal wondership of the land, those that agreed would become US citizens. The goal was to Americanize them and make them Chirsiten and civilized.The Native Americans lost much of their land as excess was opend to whites. It was ended in the 1930s under President Roosevelt's Indian Reorganization Act, allowing them to follow their ideals. The battle of little bighorn (Custer's Last Stand 1876) The Native Americans won a desicive victory. The battle of wounded knee in 1890 was the last skirmish between the US and the Native Americans.
5.2 - Railroads were the biggest industries in the early American history, railroads were essential for settling the West. In 1870 there were few railroads and fresh tracks being laid in the South after the Civil War. After the 1870s in the 1890s the entire country was covered with railroads. In 1850 there where 9,021 miles of railraod, and in the 1890s there were 129,774 miles of track. People living in the plains had to deal with lonliness, sod houses with a lack of trees, blizzards, flash flooding, sandstorms.
20th -
5.2 - Snow days back then caused students to be out of school for a week because they don't have the same products and machines we do. With the insect Plagues the Rocky Mountain Locust his farms hard in the 1870's, they became extinct in 1902. The specices formed the longest locust swarm in history, 1,800 miles land and 110 miles wide, they hit the plains hard. They fought back with hopper dozers which stood up and caught the gress hoppers in a sticky substance. The farmers had to do a lot of hard work to keep the farm running without any modern equipment. Native American attacks were relitivly common and they attacked families on their farms, they were demonized for protecting what they had. Dugouts were common along with sod houses due to a lack of trees. Railroad prices and debt were also hard on the farmers with the transporting of their crops and the transporting of items back. They had to get mortgage their farm again and again to buy more seed. There was less money in circulation after the Civil War and the farmers went into debt.
5.3 - The Grange (The National Grange of the Order of Patros of Husbandry) wanted to help farmers both with money and socially due to the loliness of the type of live. The Grange also helped helping farmers to get political power to have a say. The railroad had control over the farmers and the Grange wanted to help them gain independance. The Granger Laws were used to fight back against railroads. They wanted railroads and grain elevators to charge fair prices. in 1877 Munn v Illinoirs the supreme Court supported farmers. in 1886 Wabash v Illinois the supreme court supported the railroads. The Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 allowed the US Government to supervise railroads, it required tem to be fair and just. At first the law didn't help the farmers due to loopholes and not being enforced. The Populist Movement with the Omaha Platform in the 1890s wanted to help farmers out of debt. They wanted to give people a greater voice in government. They also wanted to increase the money supply.
21st - We contined to watch the entrepreneur video.
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