Today we watched a video and took notes.
Chapter 5 notes
- Irish immigrants and civil war veterans built railroads about 20,000 miles long
- Pacific and North American plates collide to make the Sierra Nevada Mountains over 2 miles high and is still growing
- The government pays companies with federal land
- The Donar Party ate each other.
- Chinese worked and were paid less but weren’t expected to live.
- Estimated 1,500 chinese died in rock explosions
- Hung Le Whoa’s son was the first chinese american to graduate from a collage
- May 10th, 1965, the telegrapher transmitted a one word message
- 40,000 settlers moved to Nebraska in one year
- 10% of the US was given away in the Homestead act
- Settlers’ houses were built of mud and sod
- The great plains got plenty of thunderstorms
- More tornadoes hit the planes than any other place
- Locus join over the great plains and become a plague
- 1892, half the population of Nebraska goes back east
- Logers harvest over 50 million acres of trees - $3 dollors a day
- Towns were built so fast the streets were given letters and #’s instead of names
- Hunters kill 8,000 buffalo a day for their hides alone
- Spanish Conquistadors brought horses over from Europe
- Buffalo can run at 35 mph
- It takes 13 arrows to kill a buffalo
- 30,000 buffalo are killed in about a decade
- After the civil war, 60% of the south’s population lives in poverty
- Cowboys only got paid $1 a day
- ‘Abraham Lincoln may have freed all men but Sam Colt made them equal’
- Cowboys and Farmers collide
- Boundary disputes are violent and often end in death
- Barbed wire blocks out the Cowboys from the Farmers’ land
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