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4 major tribes Dakota, Cheyenne, Sioux, and Comanche. Plains Indians used every part of the buffalo when they killed it, they followed buffalo when they migrated. Indians believed in many gods such as sun, moon, stars. They had celebrations called pow wows. The first horses the plain indians got were from the spanish. They usually lived in small families. The more white settlers moved westward the farther the Plain Indians were pushed west. 1858 the finding of gold in Colorado attracted thousands of settlers.
Treaty of Fort Laramie Sioux agreed to live on reservation by Missouri River. Red River War started when the comanche raided settlements, main battles were Battle of Red River, Sweetwater Creek. Gold Rush began in 1874, many people went to the gold rush, few became rich. Custer's Last Stand was also called Little Big Horn. Battle of Wounded Knee was considered the last major battle of the Great Plains.
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Dugouts were made in the side of hills and soddies were made of mud and sticks. Some women worked in fields with men, they took care of children, washed clothes and milked cows and other farmwork. John Deere became when he invented the steel plow making ti easier to cut through roots and other stuff. Cyrus Mcormick invented the reaper making farming faster and more efficient, this was just one of many inventions that made farming eaiser on the plains.
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in the 1800s the price of crops went down, many farmers went into debt. Railroads made farmers pay a lot to transport their crops. Oliver Hudson Kelley formed a group called the Grange. Farmers made organizations to go against the railroads.
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Many natural resources, government supported big businesses, a growing population made labor cheap, these were causes of of the industrial revolution. Black gold is another name for crude oil. 1800s there was a lot of iron and coal, they made steel by getting other minerals out of iron. railroads used steel a lot, the invention of steel lead to many other inventions that kept the Industrial Revolution.
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