Monday- We watched Men Who Built America episodes 1 and 2
Tuesday- We Finished ep 2 and went over page one of the worksheet
The Open range-long drive-cowboy era ended rather quickly. Why?
The demand for beef and prices dropped
Farmers and Sheepherders moved into the Great Plains and put up fences
More Railroads were built in the sout so long drives werent needed.
Wednesday
The Open-Range-Long-Drive was a very romanticized era but it ended quite quickly
The Kansas-Nebraska Act- the official indian territory was shrunk down to oklohoma
Oklohoma became a state in 1907, and it opened to white settlers.
We fought the indians by destroying the buffalo, and they hunt them by the thousands
Dawes act- gave native americans 160 acres of land, and who agreed would be given U.S. citizenship. the goal of this was to americanize them.
Native Americans lost much of their land as excess was opened to white people ( the real goal)
Ended in the 1930's, where he passed the indian reoganization act.
Battle of Little Bighorn(Custer's Last Stand)-1876
Battle of Wounded Knee-1890-Last Major skirmish betwitxt NA and US Army
How did railroads and U.S. homestead act help settle the great plains?
Railroads help settle the west
Thursday
We continue going over chapter five notes
Life on the Great Plains was not easy:
Lonely, Bad Weather, Grasshopper Plagues, Hard Work, Native Americans
When you lived in the great plains back then, you mostly lived by yourself, and the nearest town and city were many miles away.
Sand storms were very common, due to the lack of crop rotation, and blizzards were hard to combat
Locust ate crops in the rocky mountaints and made it very hard to grow food.
Native American Attacks on settlers made people scared to move out there in fear of losing everything
Sod Houses kept the home cool, and kept heat in pretty well.
Dugouts- usually hills that have been carved out, most of them were pretty basic and cramped
The Prices of the Railroad were super high because they had very little competition, so they charged what they want. Many farmers mortgaged their farms in order to buy more seed and supplies. Crop prices then fell due to overproduction.
After the Civil War, the money in circulation went down, so money became more valuable which it then made it harder to pay back. They wanted more money in circulation help with crop prices.
Describe what the Grange was and their purpose.
The Grange is an organization that encourages families to work together to promote the social, economic and political well-being of farmers. They started after the Civil War, and is still around today.
Granger laws were created to fight back against railroad abuses, and wanted grain elevators and railroads to charge fair prices.
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