Monday -
- Why did settlers move West?
- Great American Desert
- Farming, mining, cattle ranching, sheep herders
- sheep ate grass, cattlemen didn't like sheep herders
- farmers put up fences
- Montana, ND, SD, Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana
- From Mississippi to the Rockies
- Manifest Destiny - God given right to take over land and move West
- Homestead Act
- gave 160 acres of land if you made a home and planted crops
- Mining - gold and silver
- Mountain Men
- Military
- Working on the Railroad
Tuesday -
- Describe a cowboys life
- Cattle Ranching and Cowboys
- peaked between 1867 - 1880
- open range
- railhead towns - towns that were at the end of the railroad
- ranchers
- Texas longhorns
- cattle barons - bigger ranchers, pushed out smaller ranchers
- 25% of cowboys were ex-slaves
- Lonely and dangerous
- cattle industry fell when the price of beef fell
- No railroads
- Dodge City
- Lots of money to be spent
- drinking
- gambling
- fights
- prostitution
- gunfights/duels
- Law and order
- Wyatt Earp
- Lots of money to be spent
- Cattle Ranching and Cowboys
Wednesday - Christina came and talked about buffalo
Thursday -
- Wild Bill Hickok -
- celebrity gunslinger
- Omaha was a cow town, stock yards
- long drives because there weren't railroads
- farmers put up fences, killed upen range
- Wild Bill Hickok -
- Describe the importance of buffalo to Native Americans and how buffalo were destroyed
- How did the gov't deal with Native Americans in the mid to late 1800s? What were their policies?
- Killed them
- Couldn't own land
- Pushed off into reservations
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- Dawes Act - 1887
- gave land to Native American to farm
- NA Homestead Act
- ended tribal ownership of land
- granted US citizenship
- Americanize them - be white
- not required but the other option was pry war
- Christianize them
- ended in 1930s under Pres Roosevelt's Indian Reorganization Act
- gave land to Native American to farm
- Battle of Wounded Knee - 1890 - last major battle
Friday - Chapter 5.2
- How did railroads and the Homestead Act help settle the Great Plains?
- Workers on the railroad
- Brought people west
- Transcontinental Railroad
- More railroads
- Free land to build a home and farm
- What challenges did people face in the Great Plains?
- Lonely
- far from socialization
- Bad weather
- dust storms
- no trees
- wind
- Rocky Mountain Locusts
- Grasshopper plagues
- Rocky Mountain Locusts
- Hard work
- working all the time for everything you have
- Native Americans
- sproadic, low casualties
- Lack of Trees
- sod houses
- dugouts
- Lonely
- How did people solve some of these problems?
Comments
Well done!