The 2 treaties of Fort Laramie
Plan for a reservation system. Territory for Indians and they’d be divided into 2 colonies
Buffalo Soldiers
black soldiers in the U.S. Army during the Indian Wars
Sand Creek Massacre (1864)
Colonel J.M. Chivington’s militia massacred 400 Indians.
Montgomery Ward
Mail order catalogs
New farming inventions, techniques…
Steam driven tractors. The “combine:” mix of reaper and thresher
Explain succes of California agriculture
Mexican and Chinese worked for low wages. The refrigerator car.
Major concerns of farmers
Low crop prices and deflated currency
Problems with deflated currency among farmers
They needed more crops and their was contraction