to move westward after the Civil War by federal legislation such as the Homestead Act‚ which gave 160 acres of land to American citizens who were committed to settling on the land and who could pay the $10 registration fee. However‚ farming on the plains proved much more difficult than many settlers thought it would be. Thousands of blacks moved west after the Civil War to escape life in the South; mining‚ ranching‚ and lumbering also attracted settlers to the West. This westward expansion greatly
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Tragedies Imagine being blinded by dirt and disoriented by wind. Imagine having to cover your faces whenever you left the house and having to cover your food whenever you ate. Well‚ welcome to the Dust Bowl. During the 1930’s dust storms took over the Great Plains and the borders of Texas and Oklahoma. Many Americans had troublesome days due to the dust storms which were mainly caused by the loss of short grass prairie. With tractors many farmers over plowed their fields and with the grass gone‚ it would
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struggle for survival. Hence‚ it is no surprise that a culture of dance and song resorted to ceremonies and rituals to express their desperate cries for the return of the buffalo. According to Sonia Benson‚ author of "Native North Americans of the Great Plains‚” the distraught Native Americans created the Ghost Dance‚ a ceremony of music and dance that‚ “expressed a vision of the end of the present world‚ in which all the dead Indian ancestors and the buffalo would return” (1091). While chanting and
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8‚ 2014 APUSH Chapters 27 & 28 Homework Assignment Chapter 27: 1. Whites finally overcame resistance of the Plains Indians ultimately with various factors. The whites had a fire-and-sword policy that was the last step to shatter the spirit of the Indians. The railroad‚ diseases‚ locomotives‚ and the near-extinction of the Buffalo in the plains all contributed to the “taming” of the Plains Indians. The railroad sprang right through the heart of the West. Locomotives brought never ending amounts of
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the construction of the transcontinental railroad. Railroads pierced through the heart of the continent while slashing through Indian lands dividing the once open ranges of the Great Plains and splicing the economies of the East and West. The Indians had faced many battles and suffered great losses‚ but the fate of the Plains Indians was to be determined not by a battle with guns or bows and arrows‚ but by a change in policy by the American government. Ronald Takaki takes on the topic of the “Indian
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semiarid Great Plains‚ a region seared by hot winds in the summer and buffeted by blizzards and hailstorms in the winter‚ presenting a temporary obstacle to further migration. CRUSHING THE NATIVE AMERICANS Because they were seen as an additional obstacle to further White migration‚ the Native Americans were pushed from their lands and forced to radically change their cultures by the end of the century. Those who did not peacefully acquiesce were beaten into submission. Life of the Plains Indians
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New Concerns in the North‚ 1868-1876 Grantism: Grant’s presidency was filled with bribery‚ fraud‚ and corruption—his subordinates‚ not him personally; he had few political skills His sec/state named FISH! Convinced England to pay America $15.5 mil. for Confederate ships they damaged during the war Previous president annexed Alaska‚ so Grant tried to annex Dominican Republic and failed. The Liberals’ Revolt: Liberal Republicans (free trade‚ hard money‚ supply/demand)—thought Reconstruction
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Indians adapted the horse lifestyle but were not as intermingled with them as the Comanche Indians. The Comanche Indians originated in the Northern Shoshones but were attracted to the abundance of buffalo and warm weather in the southern plains. When these Plains Indians acquired the horse‚ their migration to the south was much easier and quicker process than it would have been on foot. The horse was a dominant part in the lives of these Indians.4 With the movement into the new territory‚
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the Southern Great Plains region know as the “Dust Bowl” or “Dirty Thirties”. In 1869‚ the railroad made its way to the Great Plains and became home to the many early settlers who took advantage of the “free soil” or land tracts offered by the government via the Homestead Act; a bill enacted in hopes to curb slave labor and increase the number of individual farmers who owned and operated their own farms. The settlers of this area met with many challenges. The semiarid Great Plains offer lush farm
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The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan Presently‚ as many people enjoy the beauty of the prairie either in the north or in south‚ they fail or do not understand that a big proportion of those plains are consequently modern era ecological disaster. It is common to hear people talk about “the Dust Bowl or “the Dirty ‘30s”. This is where Timothy Egan in his non-fiction book The Worst Hard Time basis his book‚ i.e.‚ on the historical 1930 Dust Bowl. In his book‚ Egan critically examines the origin and
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