Monday - Notes
Chap. 5-6
Why did settlers/people move to the Great Plains/West?
- gold
- mining
- farming (free land)
- working on railroads
- hunting trapping
- mountain men
Tuesday - Notes
Why did settlers/people move to the Great Plains/West?
- when they joined the US Military
Describe a Cowboys Life?
- peaked between 1867-1880
- OPEN RANGE - area of land where cattle roamed free
- RAILHEAD TOWNS - Towns at the end of the railroads
- RANCHERS - People who owned ranches and cattle
- TEXAS LONGHORNS - Cross breed of cattle
- LONG DRIVE - herding and moving cattle
- CATTLE BARONS - bigger ranchers
- 25% of cowboys where ex-slaves
- life of a cowboy was lonely and dangerous
- cattle industry fell when the price of beef fell
Wednesday -
Christina (Buffalo Stuff)
Thursday -
- Omaha Stockyards was second biggest stockyard in US
- Shipped to Omaha and then shipped from Omaha to the East
- Long drives were so necessary because there were no railroads in the South
- Long drives ended when railroads were brought to the South, and when the beef price and popularity fell
- Dawes Act (goal was to Americanize the Indians)
Friday - Notes
How did railroads and the Homestead Act help settle the Great Plains?
- People were already on the railroads so people coming through made towns
- Homestead Act gave people free land as long as they promised to farm it
Life in the Planes weren't easy
- Lonely
- Bad weather
- Grasshopper plagues
- Hard work
- Native American Attacks
- Lack of Trees--Sod Houses
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