Early Out!!!
Continuing presentations today!
We left off with Kendra on friday so she will start out today.
Blog assignment for this week and we can choose any topic from chapters 5-9 and try to go outside of our section.
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.
-they became more common durring the development of the christain trail
-55,000 men worked on ranches between 1866 adn 1885
-25% were african american and 12% mecxican and the remaining were white men
-most worked 10-14 hours on ranches or 14 hours or more on cattle trails
-season began with rounding up as many longhorns as possible
-kept them fenced in until they would rather eat than run away
-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
Ch. 6.1:
-What caused the Industrial revolution to really take off in the late 1800's?
-there was a wealth of natural resourses like gold, steel, coal, oil
-What were some new inventions in the late 1800's and what affect did they have on people's lives?
-the internal combustion engine
-dynamite electric motor
-motion pictures, phone, x-ray, radio, light bulb invented by who we all know Thomas Edison
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