Essays on The Plains

Introduction

On most occasions, historians construct world history according to the emergence of civilizations associated with a particular empire. Egypt is one of the rich areas studied by the scholars to understand how ideas and people came together to formulate civilizations and empires. Imagine a region that is sparsely populated but still fertile and watered by several water sources. Individuals settle in the region and proceed to domesticate the animals and plants. The process of domestication is made possible by migration and riverine territories. As the population rises, so do the needs of the people. The requirements introduce political and ...

Chapter Reading Questions

Discuss the different approaches of the federal government toward the Plains Indians The different approaches that were taken towards the Plains Indians were (1) concentration, which is reducing the areas of land available to the Plains Indians. This would end with the Plains Indians living on reservations. (2) forced assimilation. The Plains Indians were forced to send their children to schools that indoctrinated them against their own heritage. This was done by forcing them to take the names of white people, punishing them for speaking their language, and making them dress and act like white children. They were also ...

Dust Bowl is an environmental catastrophe that occurred in the Southern Great Plains of U.S.A. The top soil in the great plains, literally flew away in the wind created a dust cloud in the region. The wind erosion was so intense that it almost smothered human, animal and plant life in the process. Following the incident, the land became a barren landscape and unsuitable for human inhabitation. Farmers and families were forced to leave the land and settle elsewhere as the dust made it difficult to breath. Many agricultural experts blame over cultivation and draining of soil resources as ...

Very similar attitudes were used to justify the trade in African slaves. They were not Christian and were “uncivilized” from a European point of view because if their lack of what Europeans could recognize as a culture and a social system. Slavery and even barbaric transportation were justified because at least the slaves would be converted to Christianity and saved from hell in the afterlife. The same attitude informed white American attitudes to the Native Americans, as Carroll and Noble put it: the English settlers “required the ‘barbarous heathen’ to reject their traditional cultures, live in ‘praying villages’ and adopt an English ...