enormous size > lack of trees > semi-arid-little water available > unpredictable weather > ferocious winds > many areas flat and featurless > inhabited by locusts and grasshoppers > wolves
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What the white Europeans thought of the Great Plains
Early European explorers found the Plains a very hostile environment, and the area was marked on early maps as the 'great American desert'. Major Stephen Long, Unfit for Cultivation and uninhabitable
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What the Native Americans (indians) Overview 1
The Native Americans were not one people, but many tribes. The most famous tribes were the Apache, Sioux, Blackfeet and Cheyenne, each one led by its own Council of Elders.
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Key Date 1 - 1837
Financial collapse in Eastern U.S.A-
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Key Date 2 - 1844
Joseph Smith dies-
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Key Date 3 - 1848
California Gold Rush-
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Key Date 4 - 1851
The 1st Fort Laramie Treaty-
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Key Date 5 - 1862
The Homestead Act-
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Key Date 6 - 1864
The Sand Creek Massacre-
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Key Date 7 - 1866
Goodnight & Loving establish the first cattle trail-
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Key Date 8 - 1868
The 2nd Fort Laramie Treaty-
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Key Date 9 - 1869
Completion of Transontinental Railroad-
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Key Date 10 - 1876
Battle of Little Bighorn-
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Key Date 11 - 1887
The end of the Open range-
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Key Date 12 - 1890
The Battle of Wounded Knee-
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Early European explorers found the Plains a very hostile environment, and the area was marked on early maps as the 'great American desert'. Major Stephen Long, Unfit for Cultivation and uninhabitable
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What the white Europeans thought of the Great Plains
Card 3
Front
The Native Americans were not one people, but many tribes. The most famous tribes were the Apache, Sioux, Blackfeet and Cheyenne, each one led by its own Council of Elders.
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