Andrew Carnegie was one of the most powerful people in the 1900's. Through is wealth his goal was to make the lives of everyone better through education, global unity and Ethics matter. In the Carnegie Institute in Washington, the Institute gives grants of money to help scientists come up with new scientific studies. Also the Carnegie Library is an important idea to the building a education because it gives the community new ways to build there knowledge. My opinion of this approach is that it is a good way to help people because they have to build there own life. Yet the problem with this idea is that what if people are hungry? the education that they are giving them cant feed them, therefore the starving people that aren't getting fed. If I had the money that Andrew Carnegie  had I would give a lot to the poor so that they could get food.

 CRAZY HORSE 

       by: Griffin Peek    

              Crazy horse was considered to be a huge impact to the Indian way of life in the 1800’s. His real name, Tasunke Witko, was born in the black hills of South Dakota. At the age of thirteen he was already stealing horses from the crow Indians and was then given the name crazy horse. He was considered to be a shy man but who was a son, pupil to red cloud, a brother but most people knew him to be a leader.

            His conflict with the settlers first started when the settlers wanted to build the Bozeman trail when they first realized that there was gold in the Black hills of South Dakota. The Bozeman trail was to be built right through the buffalo hunting fields of the Lakota people also known as the Sioux nation. He was not happy about this because tribe life had already begun to change in the 1850’s and it started to change rapidly. For the white man to take away the buffalo hunting that was the same as killing the people, because that was there main source of food and recourses. The Lakota people decided that they were going to move farther in to the “hills” to live away from the settlers.

Crazy Horse 

            Crazy horse was known for many things he was known for his leadership and grit, but for someone to have those qualities you need something else that come with it. That is courage; crazy horse was known to be one of the bravest warriors that ever lived. He would charge into battle 40 yards in front of the other warriors that shows how much the tribe looked up to him and how he had a “mystical ability to avoid injury or death on the battle field.”(BIO) He fought in many war and battles such as the battle of bull run and many more. After the death of Red cloud, Crazy horse was promoted to the tribes “shirt wearer” he was now the leader of the Lakota people and tribe loved him. But when he was caught trying to steal another man’s wife he was removed from shirt wearer but the people of the tribe still loved and praised him the same.

            Crazy horse was one of the best warriors that the Sioux people had and him most famous battle was know all around the United States as the Fetterman massacre. In the early 1870’s the government was trying to put all of the Indians in Oklahoma known as Indian Territory. They were put on reservations. Crazy horse was not okay with the idea that he would be moved from his land. The fetterman massacre was the attempt by the government to control the Indians in the black hills of South Dakota. Eighty men under the command of Fetterman marched into the hills trying to force Crazy horse to the reservation.  Crazy horse and his men killed all eighty of fettermans men and before they could get to fetterman he committed suicide and the massacre was over. This was heard all around the United States and was for ever known as a huge embarrassment to the government. After the massacre the government ended the Bozeman trail in 1867 and that was the end.

Hunting Buffalo 

          Ten years later the Government chased Cary horse out of the black hill as crazy horse retreated to Montana to meet up at the main Sioux encampment where the leader Sitting Bull. AS sitting bull retreated Crazy horse decided to fight eventually surrendering to the reservation. The final years of Crazy Horse’s life he was nearly starving but losing his rebellious attitude. In a final attempt to get his third stick nearly dead wife to his parents he was caught and was accused of running off the reservation. As they took him in saw the jail and as he tried to get free and was stabbed in the kidney with a bayonet and he died on 

        September 5, 1877 with his father by his side. He was a great warrior and he did not want to do what the white government also known as the “white man” wanted them to do. he was a rebel and he knew what was right. The settlers wanted to take their land from them and they believed that the white man should pay. He was fighting for a good cause and all he wanted was for his people to have the land they deserve and to make them happy.

The black hills of Montana 

Sources:
PBS.crazyhorse

Bio.crazyhorse

Encyclopedia Britannica- fetterman massacre

Encyclopedia Britannica- crazy horse

History reference center. Crazy horse  

After Columbus- The Smithsonian Chronicle of the North American Indians: 970.004

The west was known to be a free, wild frontier where people could go to start over and get land for cheap.  The paintings by the “rocky mountain school” showed extravagant landscapes which were not true. Most people thought that no one lived in the west but many types of people lived there they were not expecting this which caused so competition which brought the military into the west clearing out places for Americans to live. The West was falsely composed but because of all of the picture and the book “The Virginian” the west and the American Cowboy was shown as a rugged place full of rigged individuals. 

As people moved towards the West they weren't ready for what they expected. The people were expecting vast landscapes with lots of farming land. This is where the idea of a cowboy and the free man arose from the press. When the settlers got to the West they found things they weren't expecting like Indians, Chinese, Canadian, Hispanic and many other types of people whom had taken all of the good farming land.

The idea of the cow boy was a rugged individualist who did what he wants and was manly. The cowboy was a respected person who was a hero in stories and was displayed as a southern gentleman type of attitude. Yet many people didn't know about the real cowboy.. A real cowboy was at the bottom of the social ladder and he was the lowest paid job anyone could find. They worked with cattle all day with many physical pains and loneliness was a major factor. It boiled down to if you lived in the west being a cowboy was the last thing that you would want to do. Most people think that a cowboy fights Indians and he stands up for his self. This was wrong if you were a cowboy you most likely didn't have a gun and you were afraid of Indians. The idea of a American cowboy was displayed in the book “The Virginian” which was later made as a movie and later on into a TV series. The idea of the American cowboy was falsely shown much like the Idea of  the west.

       Growing up in the south in history class we learned about all of the different challenges that the southerns faced after the war. The things I knew about the post civil war before chapter 15 were small details such as: the land in the south was not good because of all of the cotton plantations that we had before and during the war. This cash crop was not good for the land and destroyed the soil, this put a harsh drought to the southern farmers and it prevented them from having a good crops after the war and this was no good for the southern economy. After reading and studying chapter 15 I learned that president  Lincoln was going to be one of the biggest resources of the south because he was going to be good on the southerners and not "punish" them for the war they had caused. When booth shot Lincoln everything changed. Grant was a military leader and he wanted to punish them. He decided that there would be five military districts in the south all ran by a commissioner.

     
      The southerners did not like this one bit and felt controlled. I did not know that the south was under this much of control after the war. As the federal government came down on the south everyone went in debt especially the farmers because if they want to put crops in the ground they need money that they don't have.  I feel that is it important that it is good for the people that line in the south to know about our heritage. If we know about our heritage we know how we got to be where our economy is in the south. We learn about all of the segregation that happened only a few years before we were born- on a large scale- and we now know all of the sacrifices that not just the southerners took but also the African Americans had to take to be free and fight for there voting rights.

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For this project we had to create a video using Animoto on what American means to us. Growing up in the south we love our fried chicken and veggies. We also love out heritage and farming. My friends and I love to go to the farm and redneck body board and ride four wheelers. I think that this project was a more open way because it’s not what you know about America, it’s about what it’s like and what it means to you. 

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