1) Describe Native American culture.
2) Why did settlers/people move to the Great Plains?
3) How did the US gov't deal with Native Americans in the mid to late 1800's? What were their policies?
4) Describe a cowboy's life.
Taylor Schaben:
Assimilation- a plan that was made to make native americans part of white cluture
Dawes Act- to make native american like americans it was also meant to take away reservations and divide it among the native americans
Buffalo- white ppl used to just kil them for fun. native americans used every part of the buffalo for one thing or another. white ppl relized wat they were doing and they didnt care.
battle of wounded knee- 350 souix camped here.
sioux performed ghost dance to protect them. it didnt work. over 300 sioux were killed in this battle it symbolises the end of native american wars
native americans had to start using cattle instead of buffalo to save them.
the 1st cowboys were mexicans
the mexicans taught white settlers how to be a cowboy. which included how to round up animals, take care of animals and brand them
beef started expanding after the civil war ended. the need for beef increases. they had to drive them north becuase of rail roads
chrsholm trail was the major cattle route. after railroads were invented. cowboys worked 10- 14 hours a day. the cowboy age started at 14 and ended around the age of 40. carried guns to protect themselves.
cowboys preform a for step process:
1)gather as many longhorns as possible
2)starve them so they would eat
long drives lasted about 3 months. took one cook, one wrangler and 300 cattle
the boss was incharge of negotiating
used barbwire fences.
the open range was basically them just roaming.
molly brown
people moving over to the great plains
1870-1900 was the time it took to settle 800 million acres
manifest destiny land givin to them by god they believed
railroads
1850-1871 the government made many land grants to build railroads
transportation was the big reason for railroads.
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