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Explain how the great plains began to change. First what happened in the 1500s? Then what happened in the 1870s? Best answer gets brainleist :D

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• They cleared large areas of grassland and tilled the ground for planting. They also dug irrigation canals to bring water from nearby rivers and streams to their crops. In many places, the wind was a constant feature of the landscape, and they planted trees to tame the winds that whipped across their properties.

• In the early 1500s tribes in New Mexico began to trade horses brought by the Spanish throughout North America. Horses allowed the nomadic buffalo hunters of the Great Plains to follow the herds more closely, increase kills, and to transport surplus food, equipment, and larger tepees.

• In 1870s Colonel George Armstrong Custer (1839–1876) led a mining expedition into the Black Hills region of the Sioux reservation to search for gold. The government presented a new treaty to the Sioux in which they were to give up the Black Hills region, but the Sioux refused. As a result, President Ulysses S. Grant (1822–1885; served 1869–77) ordered the military to take the area by force.

Colonel George Armstrong Custer (1839–1876) led a mining expedition into the Black Hills region of the Sioux reservation to search for gold. The government presented a new treaty to the Sioux in which they were to give up the Black Hills region, but the Sioux refused. As a result, President Ulysses S. Grant (1822–1885; served 1869–77) ordered the military to take the area by force.The Sioux and other Native American nations united to fight this aggression, building an army under the leadership of Oglala Lakota war leader Crazy Horse (c. 1842–1877) and Hunkpapa Lakota chief and religious leader Sitting Bull (c. 1831–1890). On June 25, 1876, Custer's regiment attacked an Indian encampment near the Little Bighorn River in Montana. Indian warriors had hidden themselves around the encampment and caught Custer and his troops off guard. Crazy Horse and his men killed roughly 250 soldiers, including Custer.

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