Monday: finsih test
tuesday: start watching 9/11 video
wednesday: finish watching 9/11 video
thursday:
Thursday 9/13
Manifest Destiny – god given right to move west
Key questions
- Why did settlers/people move to the great plains/west?
- Missouri river to the Rocky Mountains
- Natural resources – gold
- Farming
- Cattle ranching – especially in Texas
- Sheepherding
- Homestead act – Gives 160 acres of land to anyone that promises to farm
- Gold and silver mining
- Working on the railroad
- Hunting/trapping/adventure
- Mountain men – move to the mountains and live up there like native Americans
- US military
- Describe a cowboy’s life
- Peaked between 1867- 1880
- Very romanticized period in US history
- Life was lonely and dangerous
- Why was life dangerous for cowboys?
- Native American attacks
- Wild animals – stampedes
- Crossing rivers
- Lack of food
- 25% were former slaves
- Open range
- Long drives – cattle had to be driven from Texas to states further north
- Cowtown’s – destination of the cattle drivers where cattle would be sold
- What happened in dodge city stayed in dodge city
- Lots of money to be spent
- Drinking
- Gambling
- Fights
- Prostitution
- Gunfights/duels
- Took the law into their own hands
- Law and order
- Wyatt Earp
- Describe the importance of the buffalo to native Americans and how the buffalo were destroyed
- How did the US gov’t deal with native Americans in the mid to late 1800’s? What were their policies?
- Why was life dangerous for cowboys?
Friday: Start watching men who built america video
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