8-10 work day
11-12
Ch. 5.1:
-Describe Native American culture. buffalo Indians settled thousands of years ago, Indians were introduced to the horse it made hunting easier
-Why did settlers/people move to the Great Plains? For land to farm.
-How did the US gov't deal with Native Americans in the mid to late 1800's? What were their policies?
-Describe a cowboy's life.
Ch. 5.2:
-How did railroads and the Homestead Act help settle the Great Plains? granted 160 acres to the head of any house. lasted all the way up to 1900. several thousand were African Americans. 10 percent were settle by families
-What challenges did settlers face on the Great Plains? droughts, floods, fires, blizzards and locust plagues homes were made out of sod, lose everything to raids by native Americans
-What problems did farmers face on the Great Plains? grow more crops and would often have to borrow money just to buy seeds, lead to farmers being in debt, pay to shop their grain which also included tax
Ch. 5.3:
-What problems did farmers face on the Great Plains? in the late 1800s farming was pretty bad, prices for crops were falling farmers often mortgaged their farms so they could but more land
-Who were the Populists and what did they believe in? good land was becoming scarce. railroads were making farmer mad. they were charging excessive prices for shipping and storage
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Good!