Today in class we presented our powerpoint presentations and took notes.
5-1
-Describe Native American culture.
-Why did settlers/people move to the Great Plains?
-How did the US gov't deal with Native Americans in the mid to late 1800's? What were their policies?
-Describe a cowboy's life.
- spain brought horses and guns to Indian Tribes
- Tribes live with extended family.
- men hunted and women made things out of animals.
- plains inians believed in spirits
- they treid not to have leaders
- white settlers took land from the namtive americans
- whites wanted to own land. mining claim or business
- 1858 gold and silver was found
- tens of thousands of people wen west.
- mining camps were gross
- people from all over the world came it mine
- virgina city nevada and helena montana were mining camps
- gold rush led to railroads to governments policy wuth native americans.
- 1834 passed an act great plains became all indian reservation
- 1950 created treaties.
- Novemner 29 us invaded indian territort
- over 150 were killed mainly children and women
- colonel john chivington "i want to peace till the indians suffer more"
- december 1866 warriors crazy horse ambushed captain william j fetterman
- 80 soldiers were killed
- battle of the hundred slain. fetterman massacre
- treaty of fort laramie- sioux live on resercation along the missiouri
5-2 Justice Gessert, Katy Todd, Austin Fred.
-How did railroads and the Homestead Act help settle the Great Plains?
-What challenges did settlers face on the Great Plains? hot and cold weather water getting into their homes.
-What problems did farmers face on the Great Plains? it was hard work farming so with the machines it helped alot.
-1880 individuals bought more than 19 million acres of government owned land.
-in 1890 the census bureau claimed that the frontier didnt exhist.
-really hard for farmers to create their homesteads.
-in the 1800 and 1900 many machines were made to help the farmers with farming
-john deere, steel plow, grain drill, cyrus mccormick, barbed wire.
-the new machines helped alot because between the years of 1830 and the 1900 it went from 183 minutes to 10 minutes to produce bushel grain.
-machinery was expensive, sso they had to go out and borrow money.
-most farms were run my companies.
-1885 to 1890 the plains experianced droughts.
-1900 farmers had about 150 acres of land
-after the drought of the bonanza farms went bankrupt.
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