5-1 Cultures Clash on the Prairie
- Plains Indians lived in Great Plains
- 4 important ones, Dakota, Cheyennye, Sioux, and Comanche
- Buffalo very important, for needs, food, shelter, clothing, used teepees, since followed Buffalo
- Great American Desert...not actually a Desert
- Chase Buffalo to edge of cliff
- Many Gods, sun, moon, stars, anything scrange
- 65 million to only a thousand by Whites
- Powwows, headdress rep. bravery, feather added each time killed
- First horses from Spanish
- Harvest festival together, trade goods
- Lived in small family groups, taught life lessons by stories, grandparents took care of children while parents worked
- Women taught to sew, moccasins, cook, move teepees, raise children, prepare skins
- Men taught to hunt, protect
- Settlers push Indians West, Whites wanted land to be own, but Indians didn't
- Whites killed buffalo, Indians forced to reseravtions
-1858, finding of gold, frontier, Irish, German, Polish, Chinese, and African American
- Cattle started business
- Vaqueros, where got cowboy way from
- 1866, railroads run regularly, trampled crops
- Chisholm Trail, south had to drive cattle north to railroads
-How did the US gov't deal with Native Americans in the mid to late 1800's? What were their policies?
*treaties were inforced, Red River War, 1874-1875, seperated hostile Indians from friendly, Battle of Red River, Sweetwater Creek, Palo Duro Canyon, to destroy them they waged war
*Gold Rush in Black Hills by Colonel George Armstrong, in 1874
* Custer's last stand, Little Bighorn, 175 soldiers with Reno, to villiage with 2000 Indian braves, suprise attach by Indians instead of metting Reno there, Custer lost half his men, Custer Hill, no survivors,
*Battle of Wounded Knee, suffer from poverty and disease, Paiute prophet, ghost dance, arrest of Sitting Bull, officer shot by Catch-a-Bear, Sitting bull was shot, and Big Foot lef them out of reseveration, 350 Indians murdered at camp Wounded Knee, last native american war
-Describe a cowboy's life.
*10-14 hrs, worked starting age 15-40, 25% African American, 12% hispanic, worked all the time, no hero/villian, roundup, Long Drive, trail from Texas, to mid-west
Ch. 5.2:
-How did railroads and the Homestead Act help settle the Great Plains?
* gave settlers 160 acres of land, to farm, 3 steps, file app. inprove land, file for deed of title, reconstruction area of Kansas,
-What challenges did settlers face on the Great Plains?
* Closing of Frontier, freedom of religion, dugouts and soddies, not alot of wood, since on plains, snakes and mice living in walls, leaked bad, and flooded, clothes made from sheep, haversted animals for food
-What problems did farmers face on the Great Plains?
*milking cows, john deere, dry land, plains were not good for farming, lacking wood for building, Morrill Act of 1862, Hatch act of 1887, Land Grant College Act, farmers had to borrow money for machinery, in debt, grow more crops to pay back, couldnt find workers, threatened by railroads, weather, child labor, and low wages, charaged by railroaders, by alot
Ch. 5.3:
-What problems did farmers face on the Great Plains?
* prices of crops not worth as much, mortagaing, bought land, couldnt pay back, debt, economic problems, greenbacks, had to pay back money that cost more then what they borrowed it for, problems with railroads, raising of prices, big buisness' had more power over farmers, the Grangem group of farmers by Oliver Hudson Kelly, fighting back
-Who were the Populists and what did they believe in?
Ch. 6.1:
-What caused the Industrial revolution to really take off in the late 1800's?
* wealthe of natural resources, goverment support for business, Laissez-faire, urban population, cheap labor, new products, form monopolies, Black Gold, (crude oil), 1859, oil rush, Bessemer Steel Process, railroads used alot of steel, architects build better buildings,
-What were some new inventions in the late 1800's and what affect did they have on people's lives?
Ch. 6.2:
-What impact did railroads have on the US?
-Why were many people upset with the railroads?
-What did the Grangers or government do to regulate the railroads?
Ch. 6.3:
-Tell me about Andrew Carnegie.
-Tell me about John D. Rockefeller.
-What was Social Darwinism and how did it apply to business?
-Explain how companies formed monopolies(vertical/horizontal integration, trusts).
-How did the government try to regulate business?
-What are labor unions and what is their purpose?
Were labor unions successful in achieving their goals? Explain/Give examples.
Ch. 7.1:
Why did immigrants come to the US?
Where did immigrants come from?
What problems/issues did immigrants face on the trip over and once they got here?
Why did some people want to put restriction on immigration? What were those restrictions?
Ch. 7.2
Why did cities grow so quickly in the late 1800's and early 1900's?
What problems did cities fact due to the rapid increase in population?
What did some people do to try to help the bad situation in the cities?
Ch. 7.3
What was the political machine and what did they do for a city?
Tell me about Boss Tweed and the Tweed Ring.
What caused all this corruption in government?
What laws came about to reform government?
Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James Garfield, Chester Arthur, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, Grover Cleveland and William Mckinley were all presidents during the late 1800's. Were they a reform president or a status quo president?
Ch. 8.1:
-What advances in science and technology help solve urban problems?
Ch. 8.2:
-How did education change in the late 1800's and early 1900's?
Ch. 8.3:
-What laws and restrictions were put on African-Americans and other minorities after Reconstruction ended?
-Explain the significance of Plessy v. Ferguson.
Ch. 8.4:
-Explain what people did for entertainment in the late 1800's and early 1900's.
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