social studies term 3 week 7

interaction in america  

1. in 1492 Christopher Columbus was trying to find a short cut from Spain to India
2. the native Americans are called american Indians that because  Christopher Columbus called them Indians because he thought he was in India 

1. Christopher Columbus
2. because Christopher Columbus thought he was in India
3. the Mississippi river  
4. the vikings 
5. the frontier 
6. they built a railway track 

push and pull factors in america 

push 

• believes the us has the right to the west and wants to help get it 
• slavery 
• lost farm and cant afford mortgage
• wants to find her husband 
• financial collapse 
•  he is a embarrassment 
• wants a new start in life 
• hates the future high society 
• bad love affair 
• cant make enough money 
• the east in becoming to crowed 
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pull

merit wants own land for farm 

Reuben wants to get away from laws and lawman 

believes the Indians need civilisation 

wants freedom

 Wendell wants to fight the Indians 

two kids want to go 

a news paper tells him to go 

he is a wanderer 

safer from diseases 

wants adventure 

freedom of religion 

wants to be a fur trapper 

wants to go find gold 

wants to get rich 

obstacle 

• lack of timber 
• attacked by Indians 
• wild animals 
• grasshoppers 
• soil 
• attacked by bandits 
• huge distances to travel
• wheat does not grow easily 
•  snow rain and dust comes into their house 
• bugs and fleas 
• mud falls through roofs 
• constant wind 
• mice and snakes 

flow back 

• attacked by Indians 
• no schools 
• locusts 
• droughts 
• starvation 
• loneliness 
• prairie fire  
• lack of above ground water 
• no doctor 

s-  in america people moves from the east to west to look for land and make more money 

e- i would move to the west because of many reasons some are 

e- more open land, safety from diseases, freedom, the different opportunists in the west, the adventures

l- so i would move to the west from the east 

land

• the white saw free open and thought that they could make a house on the open land but it interrupted the path of the buffalo
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trade 

• they traded with other tribes and the white
• the tribe leaders went to England and came back with lots of gifts and presents  

tribes 

• each tribe was a independent nation 
• they stayed in contact by trading and warfare 
• some where peaceful and some where warlike 
• swapped their weapons with guns and metal tomahawks and knives 

first contact 

•  contact with the white result in wars loss of traditional hunting grounds and lack of immunity to diseases 
•  the white believed the Indians should settle down and stop hunting buffalo and become farmers 
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buffalo sheet 

1. the plain Indians came from the woodlands 
2. in the woodlands their life was based on hunting buffalo and simple farming 
3. they could not life in the plains because they diffident have the tools for the hard ground 
4. meat :food                                                                                                                                  hide: shoes                                                                                                                                 other parts: shoulder blades - hoes 
5. it would take the Indians 15 minutes to kill a herd of buffalo 
6. the animals ran around in a circle of panic 
7. he would ride his horse between the buffalo he wanted so it woudent trample him to death