Friday, September 23rd

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Today we had presentations-White rich male that dominated almost everything, then everybody else like women and black men.Ch. 5.1:-Describe Native American culture.They lived on the Great Plains for more than a century.The Iowa and Osage settled in small villages and were hunters and farmers.Spanish brought horses and guns which made life a little easierNative Americans used all parts of the buffalo they didn't waste it.Very spiritualNative Americans didn't believe land could be owned so the settlers took their land.-Why did settlers/people move to the Great Plains?The gold rush.Mining areasTo be Cattle ranchersFarming-How did the US gov't deal with Native Americans in the mid to late 1800's? What were their policies?At first we were nice and let them live, settle, and hunt where ever but then we moved them land down rules and they kept their old way of life.We wanted the Indians gone.We forced them to live in lands they had never been too.The Native Americans took revenge and killed 80 solders at Crazy HorseSitting Bull was the last leader of the Native Americans to surrender to the whites.Assimilation was a plan to get the Native Americans to give up their beliefsDawes 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?Ch. 5.3:-What problems did farmers face on the Great Plains?-Who were the Populists and what did they believe in?