Manday - Watched the secnound part of the First episode on The Men Who Built America
Tuesday - Finished the last 5 minutes of the First episode. And answered the first page of our questions for The Men Who Built America
- Omaha and Kansas City were stockyards
Romantisized- people looked back ane wanted to be cowboys
The open Range-Long Drive-Cowboy era ended rather quickly. Why?
- The demand for beef fell and prices drapped.
- Farmers and sheepherders moved into the Great Plains and put up fences
- More railroads were built in the south so long drives weren't needed
Watched some videos on Wyatt Earp
Wednesday-
Went over things we started to talk about Tuesday.
Native American Polocies-
West of the Appilations was for the Indians. (1834)
Were pushed to the Louisiana Purchase land and were to stay on that land. Had a very good chunk of land.
Indians were pushes to just the Oklahoma (1854) (Official Indian Territory) (Kansas- Nebraska Act)
- 1907 Oklohoma became a state
- Was opened up to white settlement
- Not much of Indian land East of the Missoouri.
- Distruction of Buffalo
Daws Act- (1887)
- Gave land to Native American families to farm (160 acres)
- Ended tribal ownership of land
- Those that agree to this will be granted US citizenship
- Goal was to "Americanize" Native-Americans and help them get out ou poverty
- Native-Americans lost much oth their land as excess was opened while settlement (The Real Goal)
- Not required but the other option was not good
-Ended in the 1930's under President Roosevelt's Indian Reorganization Act
The Plains Wars -
Famous Indian War Battles -
- Sand Creek Massacre (1864)
-Battle of the Hundred Slain (Fetterman Massacre) (1866)
- Red River War (1874-1875)
- Battle of Little Bighorn (CUster's Last Stand) (1876)
- Battle of Wounded Knee (1890) (Last major skirmish between NA and US Army)
How did railroads and the Homestead Act help settle the Great Plains?
- Gave 160 acres of land to people to live on and farm
- Attracted thousands of people to the Midwest
Land speculators "Stole" much of the land that was set aside for the Homestead Act
- It brought people west (To Farm)
- Railroads settle the west (Formed Jobs)
- Brought goods in and out of the west.
Thursaday -
Continued with the PowerPoint.
What challenges did settlers/ farmers face on the Great Plains?
Life on the Great Plains was not east
- Lonely
(No neighbors for miles, no towns for miles)
(Family was really all you had)
- Bad weather
(Bad Sand Storm, Blizzards, Flash Floods)
- Grasshopper Plagues
(Rocky Mountain Locust) (Hit farms hard in the 1870's) (Extinct as of 1902)(Great Plains little to the West)
- Hard Work
(A lot of manual Labor) (Woman helped with chores)
- Native Americans
(Native American Attacks) (There were Native American attacks on settlers throughout the mid-late 1800s in many parts of America) (Attacks were common, but they were also sporadic, and usually involved a fairly low number of casualties)
-Lack of Trees (Sod houses, Dugouts)
- Railroad Prices And Debt
(Railroads charges farmers high prices duee to lack of competition) (Many farmers mortgaged their farms to buy more seed and supplies) (Crop prices fell due to overproduction(Next Slide) (After the Civil War, the amount of money in circulation went down, so money became more valuable which made it harder to pay back debt) (Farmers wanted more money in circulation) (This would cause inflation which would be good for crop prices)
- Debt
Describe what the Grange was and their purpose?
- The National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry
- organization in the US that encourages families to work together to promote the social, economic and political well-being of farmers
- Stared after the Civil War (1867) and is still around today.
- Series of stat laws passed in several Midwestern states (Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois) (In the late 1860s and early 1870s)
- Designed to fight back against railroad abuses
-Munn v Illinois (1886)- Supreme Cort supported the railroads
Friday- We stared to wat the 3rd Part of The Men Who Built America. And we will continue Monday.
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