FRQ: Explain the ultimate defeat of the Plains Indians by whites. Select at least three major reasons for the decline of the Plains culture; then tell which you think was the most important and why. From the time that the Spanish reached the New World in 1492‚ European powers‚ and later on American‚ consistently tried to quash the native people‚ one way or another. Throughout the 1800s‚ and especially during the Gilded Age‚ the federal government’s attempts to confine the Native Americans to certain
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INTRODUCTION Rules for searches conducted in plain smell are complex and varied based on the circumstances and location of the search. Under the plain smell doctrine‚ an officer can use his sense of smell as probable cause to search if there is an articulable belief that the origination of the odor is an illegal substance‚ or if it indicates an exigent circumstance. Plain smell is a principle under the plain view rule‚ which basically states that evidence in plain view of an officer is not protected by
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Walter Stevenson III E-hour AP English Mrs. Wilson 24 February‚ 2013 Connie Schultz: A Columnist That Makes it Plain From gun laws to false imprisonment‚ Connie Schultz of the Cleveland Plain Dealer will take one of the most controversial issues and mold it into a serious–yet humorous–argument. Schultz considers issues from a down to earth viewpoint; she can take other issues more personal‚ however. As Schultz builds her argument‚ she frequently includes: ethos‚ pathos‚ logos and statistics
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Mountains & Basins‚ the Great Plains‚ the North Central Plains‚ and the Coastal Plains. Even in these regions there are enough differences for subdivisions. The Great Plains is divided into the Llano Basin‚ Edwards Plateau‚ and the High Plains. The North Central Plains is also divided into 3 sub-regions: Grand Prairie‚ Cross Timbers‚ and Rolling Plains. The Coastal Plains includes the Piney Woods‚ Post Oak Belt‚ Blackland Prairie‚ Gulf Costal Plains‚ and the South Texas Plains. Only the Mountains &
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American West a. The Great Plains i. Indians of the Great Plains 1. In the middle of the 19th century‚ probably around 100‚000 Native American lived in the Great Plains. They were very diverse‚ and were consisted of around 6 linguistic families and at least 30 tribal groupings. The Native Americans were then hurt greatly by the small pox and measles introduced by the Europeans. 2. The Teton Sioux were Native Americans‚ who had lived in the Great Plains. The land in the Great Plains had attracted many
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the climate of The Great Plain’s region consists of an average of less than 20 inches of precipitation per year and winds normally reach the speed of 60 miles per hour. Scientists believed that the drought that caused the Dust Bowl Era between 1930 and 1937 occurred because of a La Niña event in the Pacific Ocean. Where cool ocean surface temperatures reduced the amount of moisture entering the jet stream and directed it south to the U.S.‚ where it rolled over The Great Plains. The only thing that
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the American Dust Bowl of the Dirty Thirties on the Great Plains‚ no wonder Stephen Long of 1821 concluded that the American West was “almost wholly unfit for cultivation‚ and of course uninhabitable by a people depending upon agriculture for their subsistence.”1 It seems that Timothy Egan’s book‚ The Worst Hard Times‚ hit the nail right on the head as to the cause of the worst natural disaster that the United States has ever experienced. The great dusters of the Dirty Thirties occurred because of
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environment‚ among other things‚ shaped the development of the West beyond the Mississippi River and the lives of those who lived and settled there. Some examples of places that were shaped and/or affected by the natural environment are Texas‚ the Great Plains‚ the Rocky Mountains‚ and the California/West Coast area. Texas was one of the first areas past the Mississippi to be settled. Ever since the Republic of Texas accepted annexation in 1845‚ it was a truly "frontier" land in many senses of the
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A&E Television Networks‚ 24 Aug. 2012. Web. 08 Feb. 2013. Allen‚ John L. "New World Encounters: Exploring The Great Plains of North America." Great Plains Quarterly (1993): 69-123. Http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1749&context=greatplainsquarterly. University of Nebraska. Web. "DUST BOWL." DUST BOWL. N.p.‚ n.d. Web. 08 Feb. 2013. "DUST BOWL." DUST BOWL.
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to easily transport the cattle east. Farmers were motivated because they could get free land. The Homestead Acts entitled homesteaders to 160 acres of free land as long as they cleared and farmed it. Homesteaders then rushed to claim land in the Great Plains‚ made possible by pumping water out of the ground‚ which eventually became the world’s most productive wheat-growing region in the world. Miners would also move west whenever and wherever gold or silver was discovered. They were responsible for
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