Ch. 5.1: Hannah Madox
-Describe Native American culture.
1. Plant crops, hunt settle in small villages, they were nomadic.
After the Uropeans. Horses and guns. Were able to travel further, and hunt more eficiently.
They abiad tribal law.
They traded and produced beatifull crafted clothes.
-Why did settlers/people move to the Great Plains?
Beacase of the gold rush, and silver. Railroads, cattle rainching. Farming.
-How did the US gov't deal with Native Americans in the mid to late 1800's? What were their policies?
They made reservations for the native americans in the plains( the Dakotas, oklohoma). Later they could only travel to certain places. Most of the Indians did not obey the goverments treaties.
Later on Oklohoma was called the Indain Teretorry
Going to war Againts them. Kept putting them into reservations
Dawes act.. ThIs act broke up reservations and gave land to individula Native Americans. 2/3 of the land that was supposed to go the Natvies were taken by whites. The Natives recieved no money for the land.
Then The White goverment tried to Americanize all the Natives. Try to get them to act more like the Ameicans.
Daws act
specific boundarais to reservations
waged war
-Describe a cowboy's life.
A man who tends to cows, they also went to rodeos. worked on rancehs 10-14 hours a day.
Used guns to chase of dangerous animals or outlaws.
Rounded all the longhorns. A lot of things scared the cows which would cause a stampeed.
They would take the cows all the way from Texas to Kansas for money.
Ch. 5.2:
-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?
Ch. 5.3:
-What problems did farmers face on the Great Plains?
The Prices of the crops were falling. The back were forclosing on the farmers and taking oway the farms which resulted in a decrease of farmers.
The railroads caused alot of problems for the farmers often taking advantage of them by chargin way too much
-Who were the Populists and what did they believe in?
the movement of the people . Held a convecntion in omah NE.
Actions. Tried to increase money suply which woul cause people to mpay more to the farmers
Started the eight hour worked day.
Started a federeal loan program. giving the farmers a new start made it alot easier for them.
These are ideas that they started but werent passed at the time. They pushed to get this passed later on.
Restricion on immigration because they were taking jobs oway from people.
Evantully became progresives.
Grange organization that wasnted to proved education to farm families 3 goals
teach the members to be more organized
Set up farmers coapertives organazations of farmers.
to sponser state legislation and regulate railroads
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