Mon- Semester test review, go over decades project,
Tues- Lecture
Wed- Christina with the Buffulo
Thurs- Lecture
Fri- Lecture
Lecture
Key Questions
- Why did settlers/ people move west?
- Describe cowboy life?
- How did the US government deal with native american and their policies?
The Great Plains Nicknamed the "Great american Desert"
- Why move west?
- Dakotas
- Kansas
- Colorado
- Wyoming
- Montana
- Nebraska
- Parts of Texas
- New Mexico
- Manifest Destiny
- God given right to move west
- Cattle Ranching
- Railroad towns- Towns at the end of Railroads
- Ranchers- People who owned ranches and cattle
- Cattle Barons- Bigger Ranchers (pushed out smaller ranchers)
- 25% of Cowboys were ex-slaves
- Life of a Cowboy= Lonely and Dangerous
- Cattle industry fell when beef price did
- Open Range
- No fences
- Long Drive
- Moving from walking
- Decade
- What happens in Dodge City stays in Dodge City!
- Drinking
- Gambling
- Fights
- Prostitution
- Lots of money spent
- Gunfights/Duels
- Took law into their own hands
- Sheep Herding
- Farming
- Homestead Act
- Took advantage of 160 acre
- Sears Roebuck Catalog
- Gold and Silver Rush Mining
- Working on the railroad
- Hunting/Trapping/Adventure
- Mountain Men
- Buffalo Genocide
- US Military
- Indian Wars
- What is the importance of the Buffalo?
- Important People
- Wyatt Earp
- Wild Bill Hickok
- What was Out there?
- Stock Yards
- Where drives cows too
- Omaha was a Cow Town
- Stock Yards
- Native American US Policies
- Reservation Systems
- Oklahoma territory and Indian territory Pushed together into Oklahoma State
- White people killed buffalo out of spite for Indians
- Dawes Act
- Gave Native American families to farm
- Ended Tribal ownership land
- Made them US citizens
- Goal was to make them like the white man ( "Americanize")
- Native Americans lost much of their land
- Not Required but the other option was not good
- Ended in the 1930's under President Roosevelt's Indian Reorganization Act
- Battles Mini Project
- Battle of the Wounded Knee-
- Last Major Battle
- Battle of the Wounded Knee-
- Working Railroads- Brought people west
- Railroads majorly increased during the 1870-1890's
- Struggles of the Great Plains
- Lonely
- Bad weather
- Drought (Sand Storms)
- No wind break
- No terraces
- Blizzards
- Flash Floods
- Drought (Sand Storms)
- Grasshopper Plagues
- Rocky Mountain Locusts
- Hit farms in the 1870's
- Extinct in 1902
- Hard work
- Work sun up to sun down
- Native American Attacks
- Happened a lot
- Attacks usually had low casualty numbers
- Lack of Trees- Sod Houses
Comments
Well done!