Great Plains

During the westward expansion of the 1860’s and 1890’s geographical maps show that railroad connections played a huge role in growth. During the early 1860’s when railroad connections also known as the “Transcontinental Railroad” were in the beginning stages, states did not develop at a high rate of speed. Amplifying the railroad connections bolster the reach of products fashioned agriculturally both for the production and sale. Increasing railroad connections west of the Mississippi River…

Many were worried, while others welcomed them as if they were lost brothers from across the ocean. The great Navajo leader Hastin Tlo’sti Hee once said “You look at me and see an ugly old man, but within I am filled with great beauty. I sit as on a mountaintop and look into the future. I see my people and your people living together” (Bruchac, 44). Sadly, the Natives were forced off their land and sometimes into…

would a core of everything like slaves, trading, and many more. Not longer thus would extremely fail because of an ecological devastation in their economy because of the system. The Comanches would later fall to the United States military on the Great Plains during the 1850s and 70s. Hamalainen main idea was that Comanches effectively paved ways for the United States for…

impossible to see. Your eyes, nose, and mouth are covered in the freshly raked earth of the ball field. This scenario is something that most of us today can relate to. But in the early 1900s, in several counties across Oklahoma and throughout the Great Plains, many days when men, women, and children would venture from their homes, the dirt they were overwhelmed with wasn’t part of a fun and thrilling ball game; it was from one of the most devastating man-made ecological disasters in American…

and social organization. The first group, the woodlands first nations comprised of independent groups who possessed great courage and skills for hunting. The Iroquoians were excellent farmers and had permanent settlements that enabled them to have democratic systems of government. The Huron-Wendat based their leadership on councils that made laws that governed people. The Plains composed of the migration groups. The differences in these groups made Canada to be a diverse society in the 20th…

The book “The Worst Hard Times” written by Timothy Egan is a story about the survivors of the Dust Bowl. Throughout the novel, you see several people’s stories and the ups and down they faced leading up to and during the Dust Bowl. You see how these families faced the challenges with their living arrangements, economic struggles, and family fatalities. The main objective of this novel is to show the importance of this historical event that changed the way every single family lived and to show…

marginalized histories, and after hearing the statistic that 95% of Americans living in the Great Plains during the Dust Bowl were white, we knew we wanted to focus on the non-white 5%. We identified some problems with this right from the get-go, as the source material we required to teach such…

The illnesses and diseases foreigners brought with them caused great suffering and even death; to the point of a rise in suicides due to the distress of the sickness. Of course, the Mandan were not the only victims of this; many Native Americans succumbed to Smallpox and other diseases. Today these diseases are preventable…

The Dust Bowl started in the 1930s and lasted for about a decade. During the Dust Bowl there was dust everywhere. There was dust piled up in houses in people's lund everywhere you looked. All of this dust affected family dynamics. Most all families had to migrate to the western states where there was no dust. When they were moving they had to leave their homes most people left whatever they had behind and if they didn’t leave what they had behind they would pack it in their cars and leave. When…

One of the great mysteries of the modern world is why and how America became such an economic and democratic success. The most salient explanation for this distinctive economic and democratic success of America is the Myth of the Frontier. As debatably the lasting of American myths, with roots in colonial times and a commanding enduring presence in modern culture, the Frontier Myth instilled Americans with the ideas of the perennial rebirth, fluidity of life, new opportunities, and continuous…