Two weeks from today-Social Studies ITEDS Test.Most important test our school takes for the no child left behind policy.Basically this test doesn't affect us, except it has been changed that according to your score you may get bonus points. As long as you improve on the test you will get extra credit points for this quarter. Woo!It had been considered to make these test affect graduation, but it won't affect us, this will probably start in a few years.The ITED test will be graded as a test for this class. If you are proficient on the ITEDS, you will get 100% on the test. If you do not reach proficiency, but you do improve from the previous year, you will get 100%. If you do not improve and do not reach proficiency, you will get around a C or lower, depending on how much your score drops from the previous year. The social studies test is reading a passage and answering the question. If everyone in the class is proficient we will have a party!Settling On The Great Plains by Steph SchmitzChapter 5, Lesson 2Moving west to farm-goals to create farm land, 400 million acres of forests to farm took 250 years, took 30 years to create the next 400 million acres. built railroads to help. civil war veterans, irish and chinese immigrants, african americans, and chinese did most of the track laying. Transcontinental railroad was a railroad that stretched across the country. (1860)Government supports settlement-in 1862 congress passed the homestead act. the act offered 160 acres of land to any citizen who was the head of a household. People took this for granted, not all of the land was being used for farming. The land speculators started buying all of the land and then they would plan on selling it. About 10% of the land given out was gi ven to common people to which it was intended to be given to, but there was a loop hole and most of the land was bought by land spectulators.Henry D Washburn and Nathaniel P Something made some act for wilderness protection.In the west trees were scarce so houses were built out of the land itself, such as sod houses. Fancy machines were way too expensive for the farmers to buy so most farmers had to take out loans. Farmers were always in debt because of the machinery they had to buy, the crops they had to buy, and because the railroads would charge farmers high prices to use their railroads.
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