What were the economic, political, technological and social changes that took place on the Great Plains between 1800 and 1900? Many things happened on the Great Plains in a century, The political changes were something new to the Indians, they were used to having their own tribe to themselves, and other tribes ruled other parts of North America. Then the Europeans came, and then they ruled the Great Plains. Americans and Canadians wiped out most of the Indians. A man named Major Edward Wynkoop received news that one of the tribes wanted to end the war. The Major said that...
have been transferred by the train. Then cattlemen thought that if they could make their cattle go to a railhead, they could take them to towns and sell them for large sums of money, to farmers, civilians, other cattlemen and other people who might need cows.

By 1850, clothes and other manufacturers were manufacturing and selling their products through the fast building towns. Homes and schools have been built over the Plains. So in just a century lots of things have changed, economically. You can tell by looking at the cities in America today, they had to start somewhere!