5-1 JACOBS
NATIVE AMERICAN CULTURE
- Native Americans were simple people
- Horses came in the late 1500's
- Coup sticks were popular which they poked people with and if they stayed alive they were accepted
- Used Buffalo for a lot of needs
SETTLERS MOVE WEST
- Believed land could be owned but its native American culture.
- Moved west for gold and silver and to expand land which led to Native Americans to leave
- Idea of striking rich was wanted by all
RESTRICTIONS ON THE NATIVE AMERICANS
- Wasn't until 1850's where restrictions began
- Disagreed and continued hunting
- Many problems with both cultures
- in 80 years lost a lot of property
DEATH TOLL RISES
- Massacre of Cheyenne at Sand creek i n 1864
- Killed around 80 settlers Fetter man massacre
- Red river War-First called a war lasting 1 year with Natives 1874-1875
- Hang soldiers
ASSIMILATION
- White man trying to get Native Americans to join culture
- Dawes Act split reservation 160 acres per family 80 unmarried
- 1932 whites took 2/3 of land back
- in 1800 65 buffalo roamed the midwest
- 1890 only 100 remained
COWBOYS
- Easier to move cattle north rather than killing in south
- Starve cattle so they would graze rather than run away
- Came in spring
- Long drive would last 3 months
- End left as fast as it came
5-2 Evans
BEGINNING OF RAILROADS
- 1850-1871 land grants to 170 acres worth about half a billion dollars for laying track
- 8 miles of track a day
- Union Pacific started in Omaha
HOMESTEAD ACT
- 1865 passed
- It gave settlers 160 acres of land to settle and farm or do whatever
- Trying to get more land and get land and steal it
CHALLENGES OF THE PLAINS
- A lot of hardships like Droughts floods fires blizzard plagues, ETC.
- Dugouts and Soddies
- Dugouts made in side of hills
- Soddies made of dirt and prairie grass
AGRICULTURE
- 1837 John Deere invented steel plow
- 1847 Cyrus McCormick invented reaping machine
- Morrill Act of 1862 for Ag colleges
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