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9-24 - 9-28

Monday: watch video 

Tuesday: 

Interstate Commerce Act – 1887

  • Allowed the US Government to supervise railroads
  • Required railroad rates to be “fair and just”
  • Set up interstate Commerce Commission to carry out law
  • Failed to help farmers at first

Populist Move

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9/24- 9/28

Monday- watch video episode 4 

Tuesday- Answered questions about the video and took notes for chapter 5 Notes

Wednesday- No school 

Thursday- Took notes and watched video episode 5 

notes- 

Our two senators

  • Chuck Grassley
  • Joni Ernst
  • We choose- Directly elect
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9/24-9/28

Monday- We finsihed the vidoes

Tuesday- We are going over episode 3.

We reviewed the powerpoint a little bit.

Granger Laws-

  • Series of State laws in many Midwesterns states
    • Late 1860's and early 1870's

Interstae Commerce Act(1887)-

  • Allowed the US Government
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9-17 to 9-21

Indian and oklahoma territory merge in 1907 forming state of oklahoma

Native americans depended on buffalo

 

Dawes act 1887 gave land to native american families to farm 60 acres. Those that agree to this will be granted us citizenship goal was to ameri

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9/10 9/14

Why did settlers move to the great plains/west  farming/sheep homestead act gold and silver mining working on railroad hunting and trapping mountain men us military

 

Describe a cowboy's life  open range an area of land where the cattle roamed free Lon

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9-3 9-7

Westward expansion 1800s

 

Texas war 1835 1836 mexican-american mexican started letting americans immigrate into mexico texas wins the war 1836 1846 texas its won country 1846 becomes a state

 

Mexican american war 1846 1848

 

Civil war 1861 1865 union won

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9/20/18-9/21/18

We will be going over ancient civilization presentations for the rest of the week.

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9-17 to 9-21

Omaha and Kansas City were huge cow towns. The Cowboy era ended rather quickly. The work that was had were quite dangerous. The long drive was needed because the south had no railroads. Open ranged died out because farmers moved and put up fences. Th

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9/17- 9/21

9/19 Wednesday- 

107 Oklahoma territory and Indian territoty merged together to what is now OK

1887- Dawes Act- homestead act for Native Americans; ended tribal ownership of land, those that agreed to this will be granted US citizenship, gave them 160

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