Today is Project day presenting #1.
Hanna is going first! (she doesn't want to though)
Ch. 5.1:
-Describe Native American culture.
Before Europeans: Plant crops, hunt, settle in small villages. After Europeans: Horses and guns, travel and hunt more efficiently, they left their villages and moved around a lot.
-Why did settlers/people move to the Great Plains?
settlers believed that owning land, making a mining claim, and would give them a stake in the country.
They argued that the Native Americans had forfeited their rights to the land because they didn't settle down and improve land.
They also moved west because they wanted gold.
-How did the US gov't deal with Native Americans in the mid to late 1800's? What were their policies?
In 1834, the gov't passed an act that designated the great plains as on big reservation set aside for Native Americans tribes.
Going to war against them. assimulation-where they try to unamericanize americans
-Describe a cowboy's life.
They worked on ranches for 10-14 hours a day. They used guns to kill or scare off animals that might upset the cattle or horses or to chase off outlaws. They drove cattle up to kansas from texas to get paid for them.
5.2 person is gone.
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?
Shelbie is going now.
Ch. 5.3:
-What problems did farmers face on the Great Plains?
Prices of the crops were falling
Banks were foreclosing on them
Good farming land was becoming scarce
problems with the railroads
-Who were the Populists and what did they believe in?
made up of farmers
give people more say in the gov't
demanded reforms to lift the burden of debt from the farmers
Actions:
They tried to increase the money supply which would cause pople to pay more to the farmers
Started the 8 hour workday(farmers were working too long)
Started a federal loan program (helped farmers)
Put restrictions on immigration
Eventually became progressives
A cowboy tends to cattle on a ranches in north america by horse. Some also worked in rodeos.Years later, the gov't changed its policy and created treaties that had specific boundaries for each tribe.
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