People started presenting today.
White rich male that dominated everything. The common people chapping away the power from the rich people. Women and kids started making a difference.
Ch. 5.1:
Great Plains- The midwest, Iowans, Cherokee
-Describe Native American culture.
They hunted baffalo and grew crops. They like to settle around the rivers.
Lived in the Great Plains for more then a century. Traded tools made out of bones. Very spiritual. The Spanish changed their way of life with hunting. Never would waste a baffalo, used everything out of it.
Families stayed together. THe boys hunted and were warriors. The women cooked, made hides, and took care of the kids.
-Why did settlers/people move to the Great Plains?
For more farming land. Gold Rush and finding silver, there were also many mining areas. They moved out their to become cattle ranchers
-How did the US gov't deal with Native Americans in the mid to late 1800's?
They set aside the great plains for a big reservation for the indians so they could only live there without having people some on their land.
What were their
policies?
Assimilation Act- tried to get the native americans to change their beliefs and the Dawes Act
-Describe a cowboy's life.
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?
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