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You can run, but you can’t hide… The vigilantes, law, and Montana.
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Why do we have laws and courts?
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Let’s do this ourselves ● Created courts with judges and record keepers. ● Also elected sheriffs to enforce laws.
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Trails were “spectacles.” ● Carried out on Sundays. ● With little to do, everyone shows up.
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Henry Plummer- Elected Sheriff of Bannack. Leader of a secret group who robbed stagecoaches and committed murder.
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Vigilantes ● After a murder trial a group decided that the local government was corrupt. The vigilantes were formed. ●Were responsible for 24 - 50 hangings in Montana gold territories.
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Helena hanging tree.
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Homework: Two paragraphs. ●Vigilante committees were created to combat crime in Montana. Why are these comities both good and bad? ●Do you think communities should form their own vigilante committees today ?
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