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Ch. 5.1:
The plains wars started when Mexicans brought over guns.
- -Describe Native American culture.
- Native American raiding parties would touch your tepee to show off. This was called a Counting Coup.
- Native Americans used every part of buffalo to make things.
- They believed in living off the land and that land is for everyone.
- -Why did settlers/people move to the Great Plains?
- They wanted more land.
- -How did the US gov't deal with Native Americans in the mid to late 1800's? What were their policies?
- In 1834 the government passed a law saying that the Indians get the whole Great Plains.
- In the 1850s they split the tribes into reservations.
- The Dawes act split up the reservation into an even smaller area.
- The leftover land got sold to the settlers. We were supposed to give them the money from it, but we didn't.
- We were trying to force them to be like us.
- -Describe a cowboy's life.
- Cowboys started existing when native Americans were forced into reservations.
- Beef demand went up.
- There were also more ways to get beef around, like refrigerated rail cars.
- There was a drought in 1883 which hurt the beef industry.
- Demand for beef fell.
- The winter of 1886 hurt it even since most cows died during it.
- They got the idea from Mexicans.
- The cows came from Spain.
- The open range is an area of dry, grassy range with no fences.
- Not all cowboys were white.
- Cowboys worked a lot, 10-14 hours a day if they worked at a ranch or 14+ on a trail.
- Cowboys usually didn't use their own horses, but they did use their own saddle.
- Nearly all cowboys drove cattle.
- Cattle driving could last 3+ months.
- A 12 man crew could manage 2000-3000 cattle.
- Homestead act,.
- Cowboys started existing when native Americans were forced into reservations.
Ch. 5.2:
-How did railroads and the Homestead Act help settle the Great Plains?
-What challenges did settlers face on the Great Plains?
-What problems did farmers face on the Great Plains?
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:
-What caused the Industrial revolution to really take off in the late 1800's?
-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?
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