The Great Plains The Great Plains What words

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The Great Plains

The Great Plains

The Great Plains What words can describe the Great Plains?

The Great Plains What words can describe the Great Plains?

The Great Plains § Climate? § Land? § Economy?

The Great Plains § Climate? § Land? § Economy?

Dakota Land § O Dakota Land, sweet Dakota land, 
 § As on thy

Dakota Land § O Dakota Land, sweet Dakota land, 
 § As on thy fiery soil I stand, 
I look across the plains, 
And wonder why it never rains, 
Till Gabriel blows his trumpet sound 
And says the rain's just gone around. We've reached the land of desert sweet, 
Where nothing grows for man to eat. 
The wind it blows with feverish heat 
Across the plains so hard to beat. We've reached the land of hills and stones 
Where all is strewn with buffalo bones. 
O buffalo bones, bleached buffalo bones, 
I seem to hear your sighs and moans. We have no wheat, we have no oats, 
We have no corn to feed our shoats; 
Our chickens are so very poor 
They beg for crumbs outside the door. Our horses are of bronco race; 
Starvation stares them in the face. 
We do not live, we only stay; 
We are too poor to get away. What does this say about climate/economy/life?

Tecnological Advances § § Steel Plow Windmills Railroads Barbed Wire § Where has Technology

Tecnological Advances § § Steel Plow Windmills Railroads Barbed Wire § Where has Technology helped people live in an otherwise inhospitable location?

Push & Pull Factors § What is a Push Factor? § What is a

Push & Pull Factors § What is a Push Factor? § What is a Pull Factor? § On the Great Plains?

Push Factors § § § Civil War Displacement Increase in eastern farmland price Second

Push Factors § § § Civil War Displacement Increase in eastern farmland price Second Chance for failed entrepreneurs Ethic & Religious repression (Mormons) Outlaws- Open space

Pull Factors § Pacific Railway Act- 1862 & 64 - 175 Million Acres of

Pull Factors § Pacific Railway Act- 1862 & 64 - 175 Million Acres of public land - Morrill Land Grant Act- 1862 - Develop colleges - Land Speculator - Homestead Act - Land Rights- Cattle Branding, Barbed Wire, water rights

Exodusters § What is an Exoduster? § Benjamin “Pap” Singleton § 50, 000 or

Exodusters § What is an Exoduster? § Benjamin “Pap” Singleton § 50, 000 or more

Sioux Wars § 1865 - Government R. R. through Sioux Territory. Sioux resist (Red

Sioux Wars § 1865 - Government R. R. through Sioux Territory. Sioux resist (Red Cloud’s war) § 1867 - War ends, Sioux agree to live on reservation in Dakota Territory § 1875 - Government opens Sioux territory for gold. Chief Sitting Bull- leads exit. Second Sioux War § 1876 - Little Bighorn- Sitting Bull destroy General Custer- More troops- Back to reservations § 1890 - Wounded Knee- U. S. soldiers open firekilling over 200

Dawes Act § Americanize Native Americans § Break up tribes and reservations § Abandon

Dawes Act § Americanize Native Americans § Break up tribes and reservations § Abandon Native American ways- granted land U. S. citizenship § Results/effects?

Economy § § § § Rocky Mountains- Mining- Gold, Silver, Copper Flat Plains- Cattle

Economy § § § § Rocky Mountains- Mining- Gold, Silver, Copper Flat Plains- Cattle herds Farmers- Rich top soil Homestead land- Huge farms Great Plains, “fed the nation” Still exported Resulted in new cities- Omaha, Denver, San Fran. (fastest growing)

The Grange § § § Originally to develop social ties…why? Railroad problem- helpless Pressured

The Grange § § § Originally to develop social ties…why? Railroad problem- helpless Pressured government Influenced what Supreme Court case? Result?

Populist Party § Farmers Alliances and other small groups unite § Goals - 1.

Populist Party § Farmers Alliances and other small groups unite § Goals - 1. Increased circulation of $ - 2. Unlimited/free minting of silver - 3. Progressive income tax - 4. Direct Senator election - 5. Gov’t. ownership of R. R. ’s, telegraphs & telephones - 6. 8 Hour workday - 7. No Pinkertons

Populists § Strong Grassroots (not following major political figures) - Quick Growth, showing up

Populists § Strong Grassroots (not following major political figures) - Quick Growth, showing up in congress and legislation

Election of 1896 § Populist- Free silver- Make money cheaper (inflation) why? § William

Election of 1896 § Populist- Free silver- Make money cheaper (inflation) why? § William Jennings Bryan- Dem & Populist § William Mc. Kinley- Repub. - Big business and a sound economy § Mc. Kinley wins, Populists disappear § What does this prove?