04 Making of America - GCSE History (OCR B) - Topic 4 Settlement and Conflict on the Plains

Settlement and Conflict on the Plains, 1861-77​. How and why did life on the Plains change between 1861 and 1877?
- The causes and nature of white America exploitation of the Plains: railroads, ranches and cow towns.​
- Homesteaders: living and farming on the Plains​
- The Indian Wars including Little Crow's War (1862), Red Cloud's War (1865-1868) and the Great Sioux War (1876-1877)