PLAINS INDIANS WARS AND SETTLEMENTS

PLAINS INDIANS LIFE

• lived on the plains and rolling hills of the Great Plains of North America.
• fully nomadic and dependent upon the horse during the 18th and 19th centuries
• aboriginal peoples of the Great Plains, as well as the Prairie Indians who come from as far east as the Mississippi River

WHY MOVING WEST?

• Gold
• Free land
• A new start

THE US GOVERNMENT AND THE INDIANS

• Saw indians as savages
• Battle of little bighorn.
• Army generals intentionally killed indians
• Us government removed them from the land they owned by force

ACTIONS OF CRAZY HORSE

• Oglala lakota war leader
• Fought against the us government for land

ACTIONS OF SITTING BULL

• holy man who led his people as a tribal chief during years of resistance to United States
• Defeated general custer in little bighorn
• Worked as a performer with Buffalo Bill's Wild West show

TIMELINE

• Sand creek- 1864. Colorado malitia men killed 160 indians
• Snake war- 1864-68. Fought between the us military for mines and land
• Apache war- fought because the apaches were mad they were placed on a reservation
• Wounded knee- 1890. 7th Calvary tried to disarm the lakota. 200 were killed

WHY WERE BUFFALO AND CATTLE KILLED?

• Buffalo were killed to make room for the settlers
• This now cleared land was used to kill the cattle

LIFE OF A COWBOY

• In the late 1800's
• Took care of cattle
• Drove cattle
• Drove them to the trains to sell them

INVENTIONS/ EVENTS THAT ENDED THE OPEN RANGE

• Barbed wire
• Cattle ranching
• West expantion

WESTWARD EXPANSION

• Wanted people to explore the nation
• Establish settlements in the west
• Establish trade routs

THE POPULIST PARTY

• Party designed to represent common folk such as farmers
• William jennings bryan was a 3x candidate for office in this party

BIMETALLISM/ GOLD-STANDARD

• Allowning you to use two different metals as currency
• Currency was defind in gold
• Silver lead to higher prices, value decrease, and more money
• Gold lead to falling prices, value decreasing ,and less money

CROSS GOLD

• Bryan supported bimetallism or "free silver", which he believed would bring the nation prosperity.
• He decried the gold standard

ELECTION OF 1896

• Won by william mckinley
• The north
• Southeast and the midwest supported bryan
• Southeast and midwest had more common folk

TECHNOLOGY

• Telephone
• Typewriter
• These allowed for much quicker communication between people

TECHNOLOGY TODAY

• The internet- we have more access to information
• Cell phones- we can communicate with people across the globe in seconds

Grade

7/10 (would be American again)
Despite the mass killings of buffalo and Indians, the government and it's people really didn't know better back then. They did whAt felt appropriate at the time.

The Indians were the good guys.
Sitting bull was attacked by General Custer. He fought to save his tribe
General Custer attacked the Indians for his personal gain and for the glory.

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