Presentations Today!!
Kenzie is going to go first because she is going to be gone on Monday.
Ch. 5.1:
-Describe Native American culture.
-Missouri River Tribes
-hunters and gatherers
-horses were given to tribes in new mexico in 1591
-lived in small extended family groups
-young men trained to be hunters and worriers and women butchered game and prepared hides
-Why did settlers/people move to the Great Plains?
-they thought that the native americans had no right to the land
-were looking for gold, silver, and other riches
-How did the US gov't deal with Native Americans in the mid to late 1800's? What were their policies?
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-Describe a cowboy's life.
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Ch. 5.2:
-How did railroads and the Homestead Act help settle the Great Plains?
-started farms, offered free land who was head of a household
-What challenges did settlers face on the Great Plains?
-droughts and lack of water
-floods, fires, blizzards, insects, native american outlaw raids, crop growing
-since they were alone women would work besides their husbands
-What problems did farmers face on the Great Plains?
-machenery was expensive so they had to borrow money
-plains experienced droughts
-railroads started charging to ship grain which put them in more debt
Ch. 5.3:
-What problems did farmers face on the Great Plains?
-farmers were trapped in a economic cycle
-farming land became very scarce
-banks were foreclosing on the mortgages of who couldnt pay the loans
-Who were the Populists and what did they believe in?
-the movement of people
-demanded reformers to lift debt of the farmers/other workers + a greater voice in government
- wanted increase in money supply, graduated income tax, federal loan program, single terms for presidents, 8 hour work day
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