Ch. 5.1:
-Describe Native American culture. used buffalo, every part, for things. didnt waste things. men hunters women prepared food and hides..men and women with sensitivty became medicine men/ women...children learned behavior from games and myths
-Why did settlers/people move to the Great Plains? for gold, land, riches, not so crowded
-How did the US gov't deal with Native Americans in the mid to late 1800's? What were their policies? assimilation:had disputes on how they were supposed to be treated. wanted to change native americans way of life, beliefs, and culture so they are like normal white people. gave them land to do it.
-Describe a cowboy's life. cattle as substitute for bulls, learned ranching from mexicans, first cowboys were mexican, vaqueros influenced cowboys speech, clothes, food, ...chisholm trail- major cattle route-texas to kansas..worked very hard, 14 hours a day, start at 15 stop at 40, guns carried, .. longhorns,,gather, starve, brand, travel.. open range ended with barbed wire fences
Ch. 5.2:
-Describe Native American culture. used buffalo, every part, for things. didnt waste things. men hunters women prepared food and hides..men and women with sensitivty became medicine men/ women...children learned behavior from games and myths
-Why did settlers/people move to the Great Plains? for gold, land, riches, not so crowded
-How did the US gov't deal with Native Americans in the mid to late 1800's? What were their policies? assimilation:had disputes on how they were supposed to be treated. wanted to change native americans way of life, beliefs, and culture so they are like normal white people. gave them land to do it.
-Describe a cowboy's life. cattle as substitute for bulls, learned ranching from mexicans, first cowboys were mexican, vaqueros influenced cowboys speech, clothes, food, ...chisholm trail- major cattle route-texas to kansas..worked very hard, 14 hours a day, start at 15 stop at 40, guns carried, .. longhorns,,gather, starve, brand, travel.. open range ended with barbed wire fences
Ch. 5.2:
other info....people moving west, railroads open, gov't support, closing frontier
-1870-1900- time it took to settle 800 million acres,federal land policy and completion of railroads helped rapid settlement...railroads-race to lay track between union pacifiic and central pacific. rails of east and west coasts were linked--1884 homestead act--160 acres of land..not enough to farm worthwhiley
-How did railroads and the Homestead Act help settle the Great Plains? homestead- gave 160 acres to household for free..railroads made travel quicker and easier and shipped things needed by people,,food, supplies etc.
-What challenges did settlers face on the Great Plains? droughts, fires, blizzards, locuust plagus, raids by outlaws and native americans
-What problems did farmers face on the Great Plains? bought all these useful machines but they were very expensive so they had to buy more land and grow more crops. but that made them run out of money faster. also droughts.
Ch. 5.3:
-What problems did farmers face on the Great Plains?
-Who were the Populists and what did they believe in?
Ch. 6.1:
other info--oil found hill near Beaumont Texas-ppl didnt believe him...Texas oil boom-months of drilling, jan 10, 1901 oil spilled out.
-What caused the Industrial revolution to really take off in the late 1800's? finding oil!
-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 1900s
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