Today we started our presentationsCh. 5.1:-Describe Native American culture.some were nomadic, others were farmers; the men hunted and the women prepared the meat and prepared the hides-Why did settlers/people move to the Great Plains?they were looking for gold in the black hills; land for farming; cattle ranching-How did the US gov't deal with Native Americans in the mid to late 1800's? What were their policies?Assimilation- In 1887 they passed an act to "Americanize" the Native Americans. It disbanded reservations and gave land to individual Native Americans. But by 1932, whites had taken over approximately 2/3s of the land had been squandered away from them.-Describe a cowboy's life.Learned how to ranch from the Mexicans; drove cattle from Texas to Kansas and Illinois and the Railroads would ship them; spent 12 hours a day working on the ranch; spent multiple days at a time driving cattle, and they had a rough life on the trailCh. 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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