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5-1 The US made many deals with Native Americans, but broke deals a whole lot. US also went to war with the Native Americans. Assimilation was trying to make the Natives like the white man. They tried to make the Natives live like the Americans. The

5-1 Waged war, killed them off government foguht alot of plains indians . assimilation to live like the white European settler Dawes Act- 160 acres of land for indians to farm land speculatorstook alot of land from indians

Cowboys- open range

6-1 Thoma

5-1 Cultures Clash on the Prairie

- Plains Indians lived in Great Plains

- 4 important ones, Dakota, Cheyennye, Sioux, and Comanche

- Buffalo very important, for needs, food, shelter, clothing, used teepees, since followed Buffalo

- Great American Desert

presentations

bruns elaborated

Today in U.S history we are doing group projects.

Ch. 5-1

How did the US government deal with Native Americans in the Mid to late 1800's.

Assimilation- trying to make natives to live like White Settlers. Dawes Act- 160 acres of land to native americans

Sempteber 11, 2001 was a very tragic day. as a 1st grader i didnt know what was going on though. isaw teachers crying i heard an announcment aboutit but i didnt even know what the world trade center was. at the time it ment nothing to me but now as i

5/3

what problems did farms face on the great plains

had bad finacial problems because the soil banks forclosed on alot ot the land crops prices went down hill deflation more made more prices went down farms got payed to plant less railroads could char

Today we listened to Conrad and Reys presentations.

5-3

What problems did farmers face on the great plains?

Who are the polulous, and what did they believe in?

Farming Problems in the 1870s/180s

Farmers Troubles

early 18802 farmers were getting into bad fi

today conrad talked about the farming problems in the 1870/1880s. early 1880s, farmers were getting into bad financial situations. good farming land was being taken quickly so many farmers had to break in new ground. breaking in new ground was diffic

Today he showed us how to put our powerpoints onto our profile so Mr. Bruns could view them. We also started our presentations. First was section 5-2 which was about importance of railroads on the great plains women did more work in 1872 is when Yell

5-1 Hannah Early and Navi Baxter

-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. they

Today we started off on presentations on 5-3.

Farming Problems

-financial = bad

-new ground

-tough sod

-small amounts of good land

-give up land

-prices drop

-more crops

-not enough money

-lost farms

-railroads cost too much

-no competition in RR

-greenbacks

-more

who are the poplulous and what do they believe in/call for-

farmers, they wanted inflation, farmer's alliance

Movement of people-farmers and common people-prices of their goods raised, graduated income tax, more voice in government, election by populat

During the 1800s there was inventions made to make farmers like alot easier. in 1830 it too almost a weeks time more than in 1900 to produce a bushel of grain. Spain brought horses over so it could be easier to hunt. whites pretty much took the land

populismtoday we're going over section 5-3 and possibly 6-1

1880s farmers were in bad finacial situations, good farming land was being taken way, so farmers had to break in new ground, breaking ground was hard to do because of top soil and roots, farm

Justice Katy Austin. Chapter five two notes- Settling on the Great plains. Rail Roads moving west. 1862 crongress passed pacific bill railroad which granted public land and funds to build a transcontinental railroad. two groups were building the rail

5-1 presented by Navi an Hannah

• the culture of the plains indians
• west mississippi was unknown
• grassland
• tribes had been there for more than one hundred years
• spain brought horses an guns to indian tribes
• mid 1700's tribes were usig guns an horses to hunt

5.1

Gold rush- a lot of people came running during the gold rush and forced a lot of people out of their land.

1/4th of the cowboys were black. The cowboys barelly used their guns just to protect themselves and their cattle.

Buffalo suffered a big loss