Closing the West - Natalie Martinez, Eric Klawitter, Anthony Trimarco, Elizabeth Finley
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Agricultural method that allowed crops to be grown on the prairie, which typically had low rainfall and harsh winters. Crops adapted to dry farming typically are either drought resistant or drought evasive.
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as many as 20 engagements were made between U.S. Army and Southern Plain Indians. 300 indians had attacked the Adobe Wall post June 27, 1874. The goal for the U.S. Army was to remove all Indians in 1874.
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Barbed wire was patented by Joseph Glidden to restrain cattle. When it was first invented, it was used to claim territorial land areas.
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George Armstrong Custer fought against the Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne warriors. The fight began with discovery of gold on Native American lands. When a number of tribes missed a federal deadline to move to reservations, the U.S. Army, including Custer and his 7th Calvary, was dispatched to confront them. Custer was unaware of the number of Indians fighting, at Little Bighorn, and his forces were outnumbered and quickly overwhelmed in what became known as Custer’s Last Stand.
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Reservation boarding schools, which proliferated in the 1870s, held promise, although they were costlier to operate than day schools. It was hoped that children kept in school for eight or nine months a year would more easily break their ties with Indian traditions than those who returned home daily.
