Wednesday:
-How did railroads and the Homestead Act help settle the Great Plains?
-What challenges did settlers face on the Great Plains?
-What problems did farmers face on the Great Plains?
presentations
Section 5.1
The culture of plains Indians:
- Iowa and Osage in the east
- Sioux and the Cheyenne in the west
Family life:
- tribe lea by counsel of force
- not one person owned the land, they all owned the land
- they didn't get the idea of buying and owning land
Settlers push westward:
- owning land
- riight in country
Government restrict native americans:
- the governemt set aside land for the indians
- but got smaller and smaller
Sand creek massacre:
Nov. 29th 1864
700 men attacked the village of cheyenne and arapaho
unproked attacked
Bozeman Trail:
- 1866-1868
- connected montana territory to the orgeon trail
- didn't want white settlers on the trail
the treaty of fort laramie
- agreement between the us and the sioux nations to bring peace
- gave ownership of the black hills to the sioux nation
Bloody battles continue
- red river war
- force indians to go west
Gold rush- black hills
- 1874
- george a custer and his men came to the black hills
George a custer
- us army officer
custer's last stand
- battle at little bighorn
- june 25, 1876
- 1,000 vs 600
Sitting bull
- tribal chief during american Indian wars
Assimilation
- dawn ad-1887
- native americans white culture
- broke up reservations and gave some reservation land to native americans
- 1992-men took up 273 acres of reservations that was supposed to be set aside for relatives
Friday:
continue presentations
continue 5.1
Battle of Wounded Knee:
- 40 native police officers
- sitting bull's friend-catch-the-bear killed one of the police officer
- native Americans forced to give up weapons
- too place in lower part of south Dakota- great Sioux Reservation
Cattle Becomes Big Business:
- herds of buffalo disappeared
- horses and cattle came into the lands
- americans learned from Mexicans how to herd large herds
- Texans got angry about had cattle transportation
- herds had to be sold at cut rate prices, others,died of starvation
Chicago Union Stockyards:
- 1560 to 18880 cowboys herded over ten million
Cow towns:
- 1867
- cattlemen-better route
- McCoy came plans of better routes
- Abilene Kansas
- ranchers hired cowboys to drive their cattle
- $25 to $125 a head
- dodge city, Denver Colorado(cow towns)
A day in the life of a cowboy:
- 55,000 cowboys
- days work
- roundup- go out and brought every cow in and brand ti and sell them off
- long drive
- 10 to 14 hour days
- no railroads in the south at that time
The end of the open range:
- barbed wire defined people properties
- overgrazing lead to starvation in the winter of 1886 to 1887
- start to have railroads now
Destruction of the buffalo:
- shot for sport
- less than 1000 were left by 1890
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