Ch. 5.1:
-Describe Native American culture.
They were nomadic moved around to chase buffalo used tepees.
Recieved horses from Europeans which caused them to go on other tribes land causing fighting.
Lived in family groups that spoke the same language.
Men trained to become warriors and women butchered meat and prepared hides for useful things-clothing.
-Why did settlers/people move to the Great Plains?
Gold Rush of the Black hills in 1874 started in Custer, South Dakota.
Went for gold and land and farming and cattle.
Black Hills-Sioux Indian Reservation.
American Government-Sioux had conflicts with each other.
-How did the US gov't deal with Native Americans in the mid to late 1800's? Crazy Horse Indian attacked
What were their policies?
American soldiers.
Treaty of Larmie was between Sioux and Americans.
Dawes Act-Disbanded reservations and gave land to individual Native Americans.
1932-whites had taken about 2/3s of land that was set aside for Native Americans.
Assimilation
-Describe a cowboy's life.
Cowboys-came from vanqueros form their clothes to other stuff.
Herd cattle several hundreds miles for 25-125 dollars a head.
25% were Black 12% were Mexican.
10-14 hours on the ranch and a lot longer on the trails.
Average drive 250-300 cattle per cowboy.
On trail-slept on ground bathed in river risk of losing cattle.
Ch. 5.2:
-How did railroads and the Homestead Act help settle the Great Plains?
Homestead Act-A act that lets any citzen or person signing up for citizenship get up to 160 acres of land so they could start farming the Great Plains.
Railroads-Brought the people out there.
-What challenges did settlers face on the Great Plains?
Homes got bugs in them and weren't good when it rained. Weather.
-What problems did farmers face on the Great Plains?
Hard soil but wasn't bad after the steel plow.
A lot of them were in debt.
The railroads charged a lot for the land that the farmers bought from them.
Ch. 5.3:
-What problems did farmers face on the Great Plains?
Prices for crops dropped a lot.
Farmers had to mortgage their farms.
Bad time for the economy.
Overcharged by railroad people for transporting their crops from like south dakota to minnesota.
-Who were the Populists and what did they believe in?
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