9/9/19- Ashton Kutcher is an actor, producer, investor, and model. born in cedar rapids and his girlfriend was murdered. Co-Founder of the foundation called THORN. THORN is about child sex trafficking and to stop it from happening online. He is in multiple shows and movies. Henry A. Wallace was a political man. Moved from Orient to Ames then to Des Moines. He wrote his own newspaper. He was the secretary of Agriculture and make over 100,000 new jobs. He was Franklin Roosevelt's vice president. Secretary of Commerce. He made an Hi-bred corn company then name got changed to pioneer.
9/10/19- Manifest destiny- Mississipi River to Atlantic ocean was USA boarder, Louisania purchase from france in 1803, americans moved into texas for cheap land
9/11/19-America took texas in and made the board the rio grande river. Then paid 20 million in the mexican cession. Great britian gave us the Oregon territory. Spain gave us florida. bought Alaska from russia and colonized hawaii. Why did people move to the Great Plains/West? Gold, people believed they had the right to. Free land and start a family or farm cattle or sheep.
9/12/19-Home stead act- gave 1600 acres of free land to anyone who would build a house and farm the land. Cattle ranching and cowboys. Peaked between 1867-1880 very romanticized period of time in US history. Life was lonely and dangerous. 25% were former slaves. Open range-an area of land where cattle roam free. Dodge city was one of the biggest cow town. After they the long drive they had lots of money and they drank and gambled. Fights and prostiution happened all the time. Gunfights and duals
9/13/19- Wyatt was a sheriff and wild bill hickok was a gunslinger. Stockyards was where cows get slaughter and packed. in 1954 in Omaha 50% of the population worked in Stockyard. Open range and love drive ended because beef fell and prices dropped, farmers put up fences and railroads where built in the south.
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