Group 5: Changes in the western Frontier:
Native American Culture
- arctic, sub arctic, northeast, southeast, southwest, great basin, plains, northwest coast,california, plateau,
-indigenous pople with more than 500 pluss nations living in the united states
-men-hunters, fishermen, warriors
-money is ever accepted by the authentic holy people for Indian removal ceremonies.
-houses were mobile
-believed using every part of the animal
-epidemics of smallpox and measles killed many
-government set aside land for them called indian reservtions
-there are still sings all over the land, relating back to these earlier settlers such as carvings
why move to the great planes?
-land on the great planes was a lot cheaper
-lot more land to buy for people from europe
-cheaper for African Americans that wanted to start farms, African Americans could start their own towns as they did in Kansas.
Homestead act;
-a bill that encouraged the settlers to move west.
- gave 160 acres of land were given to any settler who was an American citizen or was committed to farming the land for 6 months of the year
- they paid a 10 dollar registration fee for the land.
Railroad and Western Expansion:
-in acts of 1862 and 1864 the union pacific and central pacific railroads received grants fo land to extend tracks west
-part of the legislation gave railroads 10 sq. mile on both sides of the track for every mile constructed
Challanges on the plain
-droughts floods, fires, blizzards, locus, plauges, raids fo outlaws.
-dugouts in sides of small hills or underground
-soddies small very little light and air got through havens for snakes and pests fireproof but lead to leaking when raining
-women worked hard on the farm sheared sheep skilled in doctoring snakebites etc.
US government and Native Americans
-us government moved natie americans off their traditional lands
-the government fought with the Pawnee Indianans against a common foe but ended up removing most members from nebraska
US policies
-one policy to deal with the indianas was brutal
-whenever white men wanted indian land the tribes were pushed farther west
-if they protested or tried to defend their land.
A Cowboys Life
- cow boys need to stop cattle stampedes
-cattle stampedes happened when gunshots were fired when there was thunder when a cooking pan would be dropped.
-Buffalo stampedes are even more dangerous than a cattle stampede. buffalo run straight and they cant see in front of them. a buffalo will only stop when they want to.
Western Cowboy Goods
-horses
-saddles: made of wood leather and metal, weighed around 40 pounds
-boots: made of leather, tall to protect legs, mule ears to help pull the boots on.
John Chisun
-was a famous cowboy and was very wealthy
-owned a ranch with a lot of cattle
-august 15,1824-december 20,1884
problems:
-ground was hard and dry which made it hard to grow crops
- wind would blow seeds away
-the solution was the invention of the sod buster ad the industrial plow
-there was a drought only about 13 cm of rain fell each year
-the solution was during the industrial revolution they were able to pump water from deep in the ground.
-used the wrong types of seed when they moved
-solved when Russians invented versatile seeds.
populist:
-first social and political movement which started the organization for the communities
- farmers alliance is one of those groups
- populist were practical people that kept their traditional ideas of a just society
1890, they became an organized group
-first national convention was held in omaha in 1892
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