Ch 5-1
- Describe Native American culture
- Plant crop, hunt settle in small villages, they were nomadic.
- After Europeans- Horses and guns, were able to travel further, and hunt more efficiently.
- They abiad tribal law
- They traded and produced beautiful crafted clothes
- Why did settlers/people move to the Great Plains?
- Because of the gold rush and silver. Rail roads, cattle ranching, Farming.
- How did the US gov't deal with Native Americans inthe mid to late 1800's? What were their policies?
- They made reservations for the narive americans in the plains (the Dakotas, Oklahoma). Later they could only travel to certain places. Most of the Indians did not obey the governments treaties.
- Later Oklahoma was called the Indian Territory
- Dawes Act. This broke up the reservations and gave land to individual NA's. 2/3 of the land was supposed to go to the Natives, but it was taken by the whites. The Natives recieved no money for the land.
- Then the white gov't tried to Americanize all the Natives. Try to get them to act more like the Americans
- Specific boundaries to reservations
- Waged war
- Describe a cowboy's life
- Amna who tends to cows, they also went to rodeos. worked on ranches 10-14 hrs a day
- used guns to chase dangerous animalsor outlaws
- rounded all the longhorns. a lot of things scared the cattle which caused stampeeds
- they would take the cows all the way from Texas to Kansas for money
Ch 5-2
- How did railroads and the Homestead Act help settle the Great Plains?
- Gave people the chance to get some land for free, helped people get to places, it was their way of transporting their goods. Homestead Act of 1862 was farm land that was given to settlers, the minim lot was 320 acres, thehonestead act was signed in law by pres, Lincoln
- What challenges did settlers face on the Great Plains?
- Extreme hardships, droughts, floods, fire, locust plagues, weather, and loneliness
- What problems did farmers face on the Great Plains
- With the cost of shipping their grain, were often in debt to buy more land to keep up with the rise and fall of wheat prices. new machinerey was invented, but to expensive to buy. land was hard to farm lots of grass
Ch 5-3
- What Problems did farmers face on the Great Plains?
- The prices of the cropw were falling. the back were forclosing on the farmers and taking away the farms which resulted in a decrease of farmers
- The railroads caused a lot of problems for the farmers ofter taking advantage of them by chargingthem way to much
- Who were the Populists and what did they believe in?
- The movement of people. held a convention in Omaha NE. Actions. Tried to increase money supply which would cause people to pay more to the farmers
- started the eight hour work day
- started a federal loan program giving the farmers a new start made it a lot easier for them. these are ideas that they started but werent passed at the time. they pushed to get this passed later on
- Restriction on immigration because they were taking jobs away frompeople, eventually became progresives
- grange organization that wante to provide education to farm families 3 goals, teach the member to be more organized
- set up farmers coopertives organizations of farmers, to sposer state legislation and regulate railroads
- Farmers Alliance
- groups of people that sypathized with farmers
- helped educate farmers
- 250000 blacks belong the colored farmers
- gold was becoming scarse people pancaked and traded all paper money for gold
- gold bus: were bankers and bussiness men of the Northeast (republicans)
- would cause less money to be in circulation
- deflations, prices of everything fall.value increase and fewer poeple have money. because rich people wanted the best of everything so if the money that they hav e is worth a lot more
- Silverites: Farmers and Jabarors, wanted more money in circulatons
- inflation. price of everythin goes up value of money in circulation decrease more people have money, circularion decrease more people have money
- End of Populism
- 1896 Election changed when Ackinley won the election
ch 6-1
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