Chapter 5 project notes.
Section 5-1
Cultures Clash on the Prairie.
The plains indians lived on the great plains.
The great plains were a grassland extending throughtout the west central portion of the US.
The four important tribes in the great plains are Dakota, Cheyenne, Sioux, and Comanche.
The indians used every part of the buffalo.
They moved so often they used teepees cause they were easy to put up and take down.
One way they hunted buffalo was to have one indian on horse back with a bow, but the easiest way was to have a group of indians chase them to a cliff.
They never killled more buffalo then they needed.
They believed in many gods, including gods for the sun, moon, stars, and anything else strange to them.
They had ceremonies called pow-wow, which was a celebration to the Great Spirit.
The first horses the indians had were from the spanish. The horses made life easier for indians. Like hunting for example hunting. The horses caused wars because they could travel so much further with horses, so when the Indians of one tribe would trespass on anothers land.
Usually lived in small family groups.
Children were taught life lessons.
Women were taught to sew, cook and decorate moccasins.
The women had to pick berries.
The men had to hunt, protect the tribe and fight battles and make weapons and tools.
Settlers Push Westward
When white settlers came into the Great Plains they pushed the indians farther and farther west.
Whites thought land should be owned and the indians didn't.
In 1858 the finding of gold in Colorado attracted tens of thousands of people.
Cattle became business.
When the indians were forced out of their homeland the cattle and horses flurished the Great Plains.
American settlers learned how to handle large herds of cattle from the Mexicans.
They learned how to round up, rope, brand.
Cowboys werent' needed until the railroads came in.
Farmers were getting mad cause of their crops getting trampled on.
They found a better route called Chisolm Trail. The trail is a major cattle route from San Antonio, Texas through Oklahoma To Kansas.
Continuing 5-1
Treaty of fort larami The Sioux agreed to live on the reservation along the Mississippi. The treaty was forced on the Sioux in1868.The Red River war consited of Battle of Red River, Sweetwater creek, and Palo Duro Canyon. he Resistance of the south were wiped out. Gold Rush Began in the Black Hills with Colonel Custer in 1874. Red Cloud appealed the government to keep people off there land. Custer took 7th Calvary into Little Bighorn. He was killerd on Custers hill which we know as Custers last stand. The Battle was called Battle of Little Bighorn. The battle of wounded knee. The Killed Sitting Bull.In 1890 they took Starved Sioux People to The Wounded Knee Camp. Cowboys worked from 10-14 hours on average and trail gerding cattle worked more then 14 hours at times. The youngest Cowboys were 15 years old. Round-up started in the Spring and sprted them and branded the cows they were going to keep.
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Chapter 5 section 3.
Farmers unite to address common problems.
The price of crops were going down and land wasn't good for farming.
A real problem most had was mortgaging and trying to buy more land and couldn't pay it.
A big problem was that during the civil war the us ordered five million worth of money that can't be transferred into gold and silver called greenbacks.
After the war he governent took out greenbacks with really screwed up farmers.
Railroad Problems.
They usually only had one or two railroads in small towns. During this time railroads made agreements to raise prices to transport grains. Many farmers had to mortgage land to pay for crops and seeds.
Farmers Alliance
After a while farmers got tired of being screwed over so they formed an alliance.
Oliver Hudson Kelley formed a group called The Grange. Most popular of most groups.
Chapter 6, section 1.
Black Gold and the New Uses of Steel.
Starting of the Industrial Revolution: wealth of natural resources. Government suppor for busniesses - Laissez-faire. a growing Urban population, enabling cheap labor and markets for new products.
Black Gold:
a term for crude oil.
native americans had been using crude oil and medicine for many years.
in 1859 Edwin L. Drake came up with a way to drill oil with a steam powered drill, creating the first oil well in Titusville Pennsylvania.
This started the oil rush.
Steel.
Made from iron, dense metal that contains other minerals like carbon as well.
When carbon was taken out you got steel which was more flexible and durable.
Uses of Steel: railroads, inventors like Joseph Glidden invented barbed wire.
Gave architects the ability to build buildings high enough as sky scrapers.
Continued to Chapter 6,Section 1.
Thomas Edison - Known as the Wizard of Menlo Park. Invented and patented The Electrical Vote Recorder. It was rejected because the people didn't like it. Invented and patented the phonograph which is the first machine to accurately record and play back sound. Improved the 50 year old light bulb, made it practical durable and usable, but he didn't invent it. Improved the telegraph system several times. Built first commercial power station. Invented and patented the first motion-picture camera also known as a Kinetiscope.
Christopher Sholes. - Invented the type writer. Worked with James Densmore to improve the type writer's easily jammed keys. The type writer was widely popular until the computer can and mass printing was available.
Alexander Graham Bell - Invented and patented the telephone. Made wax phonograph records. Helped found the National Geographic.
Microphones and other sound based technology also resulted from inventions liek the phonograph and telephone.
Chapter 6 Section 2.
Age of the Railroads.
Businesses and business people needed a better way to get to work. May 10, 1869 central and Union Pacific Promontory, Utah gold spike. The workers consisted of Chinese, Irish and out of work veterans. Native Americans attacked. Some died of accidents and diseases.
Time Zones.
Each town ran on their own time. Professor C. F. Dowd said that the earth should be divided into 24 zones. 1884 conference set world wide times, incorperating railroads. The US congress didnt' recognize it till 1918.
Dawes Act- Gave 160 acers of land for Native Americans to farm.
Didn't go well because the Indians weren't used to using fences and other new farming technology. They also thought that land shouldn't be owned, it didn't make sense to them.
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